Land Clearing in Dripping Springs, TX: Lot, Brush and Forestry Mulching

Land Clearing Services in Dripping Springs, TX

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing services in Dripping Springs, TX and the surrounding area from Johnson City, 30 miles west, and every project is written as canopy percent, acres and days. Residential land clearing here is almost always selective: open a cedar lot to the oaks for a house, a drive and a rainwater tank pad. Commercial land clearing services cover commercial sites along US 290 and the commercial development pads near RM 12; commercial clearing of a rock pad is a day for the 300-hp machine. One land clearing company, three yards, one scope sheet.

• Selective clearing and brush removal: cedar mulched in place, oak limbs never cut in the oak wilt window.
• Tree removal of dead cedar and hackberry, then stump grinding; we grind them flush at $4 an inch of diameter.
• Site clearing and site preparation to a rough grade over rock, drainage cut to the natural draw.
• Property clearing of fence lines and professional clearing along Onion Creek within the Hays County and Dripping Springs development rules.

My site work stops at the rough grade. No concrete, wells, septic or house demolition; I know the excavation and grading crews who take the next step. A professional land clearing service names its edge before its price. Tell Teo the acreage and canopy for a day count.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in Dripping Springs and Driftwood

Dripping Springs issued 521 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, a heavy count for a town of 6,600, inside 4,153 for Hays County. The land clearing projects here are acreage homesites, two to ten acres, and the 3-acre hillside job is the model: 70 percent canopy going in, under 10 percent coming out, oaks and view kept, two days with the skid steer, $5,600. A half-acre lot is one day, $2,800. Ten acres at 70 percent canopy is four to five days with the 300-hp machine plus a rock day, written before the price. Depending on site conditions we mulch in place and leave a 3-inch bed on the slope, or grub the pad and haul; the site visit decides. Residential and commercial properties get the same first steps: Texas 811, the plat for any pipeline or utility easement, and the recharge zone map. Property owners get the acres-per-day log and the canopy readings with the invoice. After a cleanup pass the crew will leave the site with the full site rough graded and site prep done, and we make your property ready for forms within the week.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Dripping Springs

A mulcher is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees down to a chip bed, turning standing vegetation into mulch without a pile. On a Dripping Springs hillside it is the only way to clear land that keeps the soil on the slope and never builds a pile. Hays County burn bans come from the county judge or commissioners court, and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles the rest of the year; mulch needs neither. Cedar, which is ashe juniper, intercepts the first inch of rain in its canopy, and AgriLife research on mature stands shows why the seeps below a brake go dry. A spring is just a hillside that finally got rid of its cedar. Under 10 percent canopy the seeps run again, and I measured that for twelve years before I owned a machine. Much of this ground sits on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone or its contributing zone, where TCEQ requires a Water Pollution Abatement Plan before grading or clearing on mapped land; on our jobs here the map comes out first. Texas A&M Forest Service says no live oak wounds February to June for oak wilt, so the crew mulches cedar around the oaks without touching an oak limb then. We remove brush in areas with dense regrowth first and thin to the motts. Large acreage clearing of overgrown land runs $1,800 to $2,600 an acre at medium canopy and $3,000 to $4,000 in old growth. Cedar will overgrow a cleared slope again from seed inside ten years.

Serving Dripping Springs, TX and Nearby Driftwood, Henly, Bee Cave and Wimberley

Our land clearing service in Dripping Springs runs from the Johnson City yard east on US 290, on the Hill Country side of the Austin metro. We are a company serving the whole Dripping Springs area with land clearing services across the greater Austin area and services throughout Hays County. Near Dripping Springs that means Driftwood acreage, Henly ranch tracts, Bee Cave lots across the Travis County line, Wimberley cedar down RM 12, and commercial properties in Dripping Springs along US 290. Old cedar gets the 300-hp machine; lots get the skid steer. For a ranch reclaim or other land improvement, I can read your EQIP plan and tell you what practice 314 pays per acre of brush management. Landscape clearing for one lot or property clearing of a 100-acre brake, Teo puts it on the board.