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Land Clearing Services in Ennis
A land clearing service in Ennis needs to handle five jobs: lot clearing to dirt, brush removal, stump grinding, rough grading and bush hogging. Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing with insured crews and one price in writing. Residential land clearing runs from a hackberry-choked half acre to a 30-acre pasture reclaim. Commercial land clearing services cover pad sites, pipeline rights-of-way and commercial properties in Ennis along the interstate. On residential and commercial properties the machine does not change; commercial sites just add days, and commercial clearing is billed by the acre. Property clearing on a lease is land improvement the tenant pays for in grass. Every project begins with an 811 locate. Single-tree tree removal beside a house is arborist work; professional clearing of acreage, cleanup and landscape clearing around the finished home are ours. Concrete, wells, septic and demolition are not. Tell Teo the job.
Site Prep for New Homes in Ennis and Palmer
Ennis issued 380 single-family permits in the 2025 Census Building Permits Survey; Ellis County issued 3,230, up 13 percent. Most of those lots were pasture or cropland two years back. A half-acre lot in hackberry and young mesquite is one skid steer day, $2,800, mulched in place. Full site clearing to bare dirt, slab-ready after grubbing, haul-off and rough grading, is $2,000 to $4,500 an acre. The site work rule on blackland comes before the price: wet clay adds a day from November to April, because the dozer sinks where the mulcher floats. Drainage decides where the pad goes; a low corner that ponds in March will pond under a house. Site preparation for commercial development near the I-45 interchanges runs the same per-acre math. Send Teo the survey and the pad stakes.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Ennis
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they grew. No piles. That matters in Ellis County, where the county judge or commissioners court declares burn bans most summers and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles the rest of the year. Hackberry and mesquite overgrow a field from the root crown, so a bush hog alone just makes a shorter thicket. We remove brush to the ground, then you bush hog each June and spot spray. Selective clearing keeps the bois d'arc fence line and the old post oak and takes the rest. The skid steer handles stems to 8 inches at 1 to 3 acres a day; the 300-hp head covers 4 to 8. Overgrown land at 50 percent canopy going in reads under 5 coming out, and we leave the site with 2 to 4 inches of mulch on the clay. Cedar, which is ashe juniper, is rare this far east. Ask Teo for your acreage rate.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Ennis?
Land clearing costs in Ennis run $900 to $4,500 an acre depending on site conditions, and one rule comes first: wet blackland adds a day from November to April. The rates:
- Skid steer mulcher at $2,800 a day, stems to 8 inches. Transport is included within 60 miles of the Weatherford yard; Ennis is outside that ring, so transport is a line on the quote.
- For large acreage clearing, the dedicated 300-hp mulcher, 8 ft head, is $4,200 a day plus transport.
- Light brush under 30 percent canopy: $900 to $1,400 an acre. Medium: $1,800 to $2,600. Areas with dense old mesquite: $3,000 to $4,000.
- Clearing to dirt with root excavation and rough grading: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre by density.
- We grind each stump at $4 per inch of diameter, $175 minimum per stump; stump grinding on ten or more goes by the day.
- The bush hog goes out at $60 to $90 an acre, never under $400. The dozer grubs at $160 an hour with operator. Loads haul at $650 to $1,200 each; the minimum trip is $1,100.
Pasture tracts with an approved EQIP brush management plan, practice code 314, get 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate back. When I wrote those plans, mesquite on blackland was half my caseload, and I can still read one and tell you what it pays. I make the site visit free inside 60 miles of a yard; farther out I price from your form and confirm when I walk the property. Call (832) 987-3495 for the number in writing.
Serving Ennis, TX and the Surrounding Area: Palmer, Waxahachie, Rice and Bardwell
The Ennis area is the southeast corner of our land clearing services across Dallas-Fort Worth, worked from the Weatherford yard. In Ellis County the crew covers Palmer, Waxahachie, Bardwell, Garrett and the farm roads along Chambers Creek. Pruitt Range & Brush is a land clearing company serving the DFW metro and taking land clearing projects across North Texas, with services throughout the blackland south of Dallas. On our jobs in the DFW area the trailer miles are quoted up front and do not move. Searches for land clearing Ennis land at the Johnson City office, and Teo routes them to the North Texas crew. Give him the acres.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Ennis
A professional land clearing service tells you the price and the wet-ground rule before the trailer leaves, and I do. Send the form with your acres, the brush you see and the nearest road, or call (832) 987-3495. Teo takes the call at the Johnson City office and you hear back before the end of the business day. Blackland owners' frequently asked questions follow.
