Land Clearing in Fredericksburg, TX: Lot, Brush and Forestry Mulching

Land Clearing Services in Fredericksburg, TX

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing services in Fredericksburg, TX and the surrounding area, one land clearing company with every project written as canopy percent, acres and days before the trailer moves. Residential land clearing here is a ranchette or a vineyard-row tract opened to the oaks for a house, a barn and a drive. Commercial land clearing services cover commercial sites along US 290 and the commercial development pads east of town; commercial clearing of a rock pad is a day for the 300-hp machine.

• Selective clearing and brush removal: cedar mulched in place, oak limbs left alone, mesquite grubbed at the root crown.
• Tree removal of dead cedar and hackberry with stump grinding after; we grind every stump flush, $4 an inch.
• Site clearing and site preparation to a rough grade over caliche, drainage cut to the natural draw.
• Property clearing of fence lines and professional clearing of Pedernales River banks under the Gillespie County floodplain permit.

Site work stops at the rough grade. No concrete, wells, septic or house demolition from me; the excavation and grading crews I hand to know this rock. A professional land clearing service tells you where its job stops. Tell Teo the acreage and canopy and I will give you the day count.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in Fredericksburg and Stonewall

The Census Building Permits Survey imputed 51 single-family permits for Fredericksburg in 2025 with no months reported, and Gillespie County requires no permit outside city limits, so the count says nothing about the ranchettes actually being opened. The land clearing projects I take are one-acre lots and 10-acre to 100-acre cedar tracts. A half-acre lot takes the skid steer one day, $2,800. At the big end, the 42-acre tract in Blanco County next door read 55 percent canopy when I walked it: six days with the 300-hp mulcher, $27,500 plus transport, and the spring below the stock tank ran again the next wet season. Rock adds a day on anything bigger than a lot, written before the price. Depending on site conditions we mulch in place and leave a 3-inch bed, or grub the pad and haul; the site visit decides. Residential and commercial properties get the same first steps: Texas 811 and the plat for any pipeline or utility easement. My acres-per-day log goes to property owners 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.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Fredericksburg

Mulching is the land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees and cedar in place, and it turns the whole stand of vegetation into mulch by the end of the day. On Gillespie County limestone it is the way to clear land that keeps the thin soil and never builds a pile. Burn bans here are declared by 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 ties that to dry seeps and bare ground under the trees. Under 10 percent canopy the seeps run again; when I wrote EQIP plans for ranchers around here, that reading was the plan. Golden-cheeked warblers nest in mature cedar-oak canopy from March to July under TPWD and USFWS rules, so on our jobs here old-growth cedar runs August through February. This county has lost whole motts to oak wilt, and Texas A&M Forest Service says no live oak wounds February to June, so the crew works cedar around the oaks and leaves every oak limb alone then. We remove brush in areas with dense regrowth first and thin to the motts. Large acreage clearing of overgrown land runs $900 to $1,400 an acre under 30 percent canopy and $3,000 to $4,000 in old growth. A reclaimed cedar pasture carries more animal units after a season of deferment, and I size that number from the grass, not the brochure; cedar will overgrow it from seed inside ten years without a bush hog pass.

Serving Fredericksburg, TX and Nearby Stonewall, Harper, Comfort and Johnson City

Our land clearing service in Fredericksburg covers the Fredericksburg metro and the ranches around it, 30 miles from the home yard. We are a company serving the whole Fredericksburg area with land clearing services across Hill Country ranches and services throughout Gillespie County. Near Fredericksburg that means Stonewall tracts along the Pedernales to the east, Harper mesquite flats to the west, Comfort acreage across the Kendall County line, Johnson City ranches on the Blanco side, and commercial properties in Fredericksburg 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 under NRCS rates. Landscape clearing for one homesite or property clearing of a 500-acre cedar brake, Teo puts it on the board.