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Land Clearing Services in Bullard, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Bullard, from a lake lot to a 40-acre pine tract off FM 344. I am a land clearing company serving landowners first, and every project is scoped in writing with a stem count and a named machine before the price.
- Site prep for a house pad or boathouse approach
- Brush clearing: yaupon, privet and sweetgum mulched in place, pines kept
- Selective clearing that opens a view to the lake without cutting the saw timber
- Full site clearing: grub, rough grade, cleanup
- Stump grinding: $4 an inch across the cut, $175 minimum a stump
- Tree removal with the debris trucked out, $650 to $1,200 a load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites on US 69 and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing takes most of the week in Bullard, TX and the surrounding area, and commercial clearing for a commercial development runs the same day rate. A professional land clearing service in Bullard should price by stem count, not by the drive past. Mine does.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Bullard and Whitehouse
Bullard issued 95 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, inside a Smith County total of 517, up 11 percent from 2024. Lake and rural tracts outside city limits need no building permit, so permits understate the work. A half-acre lot under pine is one skid steer day, $2,800, and we leave the site mulched with nothing to burn. Site preparation stops at rough grading. I do not do excavation for slabs, concrete, wells or septic. I know people who do.
The land clearing process on a Bullard lot has one county gate: ground inside the FEMA mapped floodplain around Lake Palestine needs a Smith County floodplain permit before site work. Drainage on sandy loam runs fast toward the lake, so the pad is graded to hold the sheet flow on the lot and the mulch layer keeps the sand in place. Pine shade is pleasant. It also grows yaupon faster than anything I have measured. Send me the plat, and we will walk the property together.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Bullard
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, and under pine it is the only way to clear the understory and keep the timber. The county judge declares burn bans in dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, and Texas A&M Forest Service wildfire risk ratings for the county track the same yaupon fuel we grind. The skid steer takes stems to about 8 inches and runs 3 to 5 acres a day in understory; areas with dense sweetgum go to the 300-hp machine.
Yaupon and sweetgum resprout from the root, so a mulched understory wants a bush hog pass or a light second mulch in about two years. Pine does not resprout, so I grind around the crop trees and leave them. On our jobs around Lake Palestine the understory goes in at 60 to 70 percent cover and comes out under 5, with 2 to 4 inches of mulch on the sand. When I wrote EQIP plans, understory control under pine was written as brush management too, and the deferment rule still applies: rest the ground one growing season before you graze it. Property clearing on a lake lot means remove brush, grind the stubs, keep the pines, and make your property open landscape to the water instead of overgrown land.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Bullard?
Land clearing costs in Bullard run $1,200 to $2,000 an acre for pine understory and yaupon, set by stem count and cover percent on the site visit. Hardwood stumps or wet spring sand can add a day, and that goes on the quote before the acre price. What you pay depends on the size of the tract and the site conditions I find.
- Yaupon and pine understory mulched in place: $1,200 to $2,000 per acre
- Clearing to bare dirt, grubbed and rough graded: $2,000 to $4,500 per acre by density
- Half-acre lot: one skid steer day, $2,800
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day, transport included within 60 miles of Lindale
- Dedicated 300-hp mulcher with the 8 ft head: $4,200 a day plus transport
- Grubbing with the dozer: $160 an hour with operator. Haul-off $650 to $1,200 a load. Minimum trip $1,100
Large acreage clearing on a pine tract is quoted per acre, depending on site access and how much timber stays. An approved EQIP plan under practice 314 pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate. Call (832) 987-3495 or fill out the form. Teo calls back the same business day, before closing.
Serving Bullard, Whitehouse, Jacksonville and Flint
Our crews run land clearing services across East Texas from Lindale, and Bullard is the south end of the Tyler metro where the lake lots start. Whitehouse, north on FM 346, is the same pine and yaupon on lake frontage. Flint, between the two, is older acreage lots with big sweetgum. The county seat, 20 minutes up US 69, adds a city tree ordinance inside the limits. Jacksonville, south in Cherokee County, is pine plantation ground where the 300-hp machine earns its transport. Services throughout the Bullard area run on one price sheet. Property owners can read the Smith County page or the East Texas region page.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Bullard, TX
Send the form with your acreage, your road and whether it fronts the lake, or call (832) 987-3495. Teo logs every request at the Johnson City office and calls back before the end of the business day. Our crews are insured, the estimate is free within 60 miles of Lindale, and land clearing projects get a written scope before the trailer moves. Land improvement on a lake lot starts with the view line.
