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- Land Clearing Services Available in Hood County
- Lot and Acreage Clearing for New Homes in Granbury and Lipan
- Forestry Mulching and Brush Clearing Across Hood County
- How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Hood County?
- Terrain, Soil and Vegetation Near Lake Granbury and the Brazos River
- Burn Bans and Other Rules Before Clearing Land in Hood County
- Areas We Serve in Hood County
- Ready to Clear Your Land? Get an Estimate
- FAQ
Land Clearing Services Available in Hood County
Five services cover the residential and commercial tracts between the lake and the Erath line.
- Residential land clearing to a lake-lot pad: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre to dirt.
- Commercial land clearing and site clearing along US 377 and SH 144.
- Forestry mulching and tree clearing: cedar, mesquite, trees and brush ground where they stand.
- Lot clearing for small residential lots: underbrushing, tree removal of dead cedar, stump grinding at $4 an inch, $175 minimum.
- Site prep and dirt work services: pond excavation with hauled clay, drainage, grading, cleanup.
Our land clearing service removes cedar, brush and stumps. Slabs, wells, septic and demolition are other trades, and
Lot and Acreage Clearing for New Homes in Granbury and Lipan
The county permitted 258 single-family homes in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, up 83 percent, the fastest rise among the counties in Texas we serve. Master-planned communities on the lake are developer jobs. Our residential jobs are the homeowner on a wooded lake lot who wants the cedar out and the live oaks kept, and property owners on ten to forty acres to the west doing property development around a stock pond.
A half-acre cedar lot is one skid steer day, $2,800, if the rock stays down. Commercial development pads along US 377 are land clearing projects priced by the acre.
Forestry Mulching and Brush Clearing Across Hood County
Our mulching services take cedar canopy from 50 percent to under 5 in one pass and leave the live oaks. Cedar, which is ashe juniper on this limestone, regrows from seed and not the stump, so a mulched hillside stays open. AgriLife research and my own canopy readings agree that mature cedar intercepts the first inch of rain, and the seeps run again once it is gone. A cow will tell you where the water is before a hydrologist will.
Clearing brush on the mesquite flats toward Lipan runs like the Parker County job one county north: 8 acres of mesquite and post oak, two days, $8,400, bush hog each June. Selective clearing means we remove unwanted vegetation and undergrowth along the fence line and leave every oak over 8 inches. Removing vegetation this way puts the wood down as three inches of mulch for erosion control, no pile, no burn ban exposure. No pine and hardwood understory here.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Hood County?
Land clearing in Hood County runs $900 to $4,500 an acre, transport included, because the whole county sits inside 60 miles of our Weatherford yard. The extra-day rule is rock: limestone within a foot of the surface wears teeth and slows the head, so it adds a day, as in Blanco County.
- Skid steer mulcher: $2,800 a day, transport included.
- 300-hp mulcher, 8-foot head: $4,200 a day plus transport, equipment to handle old cedar.
- Cedar mulching per acre: $900 to $1,400 under 30 percent canopy, $1,800 to $2,600 at medium cover, $3,000 to $4,000 dense.
- Clearing to dirt with grading, rock permitting: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre.
- Bush hogging: $60 to $90 an acre, $400 minimum. Haul-off: $650 to $1,200 per load, minimum trip $1,100.
Agricultural land here draws NRCS EQIP brush management cost-share, practice code 314, at 50 to 75 percent of the payment-schedule rate. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form for a free quote.
Terrain, Soil and Vegetation Near Lake Granbury and the Brazos River
The county is limestone with a thin skin of soil: cedar, live oak and post oak on the hills, mesquite on the flats where a pasture was left to overgrow. The Brazos River is dammed into Lake Granbury through the middle, and the woodland along the river corridor is mapped floodplain. Near Lake Granbury the lots are steep, rocky and cedar-covered; site conditions decide which head goes on the trailer.
On our jobs along SH 144 I log two acres a day in medium cedar and one on rock.
Burn Bans and Other Rules Before Clearing Land in Hood County
Three rules govern clearing land throughout Hood County, and none is a state permit. The county judge or commissioners court declares a burn ban, and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern every pile. The Brazos River Authority sets lakeshore rules on Lake Granbury, so clearing stops at the BRA line and the shoreline buffer needs their permit. The county issues floodplain development permits where FEMA maps the Brazos, so excavation and grading there wait on paper.
Texas A&M Forest Service puts the oak wilt window at February through June. I mulch cedar around live oaks in that window without wounding a limb, as I have since 2015. Ask Teo for the BRA check when you book.
Areas We Serve in Hood County
Granbury carries its own page. Our service area also covers Tolar, Lipan, Cresson and Acton. Serving Hood County from Weatherford is 30 to 45 minutes on US 377, so land clearing services in Hood County book one day at a time. Hood County's lake lots send the most cedar calls in North Texas.
Ready to Clear Your Land? Get an Estimate
Professional land clearing services start with a free on-site visit. I walk the property, read the canopy percent and count the trees and branches that go. Expert land clearing is experience and equipment: insured crews with the equipment and expertise for cedar clear your tract safely and efficiently. Send the form or call (832) 987-3495, and Teo will call you back before the end of the business day.
