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

Land Clearing Services in Kyle, TX

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing services in Kyle, TX and the surrounding area as one land clearing company with three yards, and every project is sized in acres, stems and days before the trailer moves. Residential land clearing here is a mesquite lot east of town for a barndominium or a cedar lot west of town opened to the oaks. Commercial land clearing services cover commercial sites along I-35 and the commercial development pads near the Plum Creek corridor; commercial clearing of a 5-acre pad is a day for the 300-hp machine.

• Brush removal and selective clearing: mesquite grubbed at the root crown, cedar mulched in place, live oaks kept.
• Tree removal and stump grinding; we grind the stumps flush at $4 an inch so the slab never meets a root.
• Site clearing and site preparation to a rough grade, with drainage cut so the clay sheds and the rock drains to the draw.
• Property clearing of fence lines and professional clearing along Plum Creek under the Hays County floodplain permit.

My site work stops at the rough grade. No concrete, wells, septic or house demolition; the excavation and grading crews I hand off to know both sides of the highway. A professional land clearing service names its edge. Tell Teo the acreage and which side of I-35 and I will tell you the day count.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in Kyle and Buda

Kyle issued 912 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, inside 4,153 for Hays County, up 6 percent on the year. The land clearing projects I take are outside the plats: a two-acre blackland lot with a mesquite motte, or a cedar lot west of the highway at 50 percent canopy. A half-acre lot is one skid steer day, $2,800, on either soil. Three acres of cedar is two days plus a rock day; three acres of wet blackland is two days plus a wet day. Both days go in the quote before the price. Depending on site conditions we mulch in place or grub and haul, and the site visit decides. Residential and commercial properties get the same opening moves: Texas 811 and the plat for any pipeline or utility easement. Property owners get the acres-per-day log 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 the forms crew that week.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Kyle

Mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand. On either side of I-35 it is the cheapest way to clear land, because nothing is hauled and nothing is burned. Hays County burn bans are declared by the county judge or commissioners court, and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles the rest of the year; mulch needs no permit. East of the highway mesquite is the enemy. Mesquite does not die when you cut it. It takes it personally, and regrows from buds below the root crown, so the mulcher takes it below grade or the dozer grubs it. West of the highway cedar, which is ashe juniper, intercepts the first inch of rain, and AgriLife research on mature stands ties that to dry seeps; under 10 percent canopy they run again. On our jobs west of Kyle the lot often sits on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, where TCEQ wants a Water Pollution Abatement Plan before grading, and I tell you on the site visit whether yours is mapped. We remove brush in areas with dense regrowth first and thin the rest. Large acreage clearing of overgrown land runs $900 to $1,400 an acre at light cover and $1,800 to $2,600 at medium. Hackberry will overgrow a fence line in ten years; a bush hog pass every third summer keeps a cleared pasture clear.

Serving Kyle, TX and Nearby Buda, San Marcos, Niederwald and Uhland

Our land clearing service in Kyle covers the south end of the Austin metro along I-35 from the Johnson City yard. We are a company serving the whole Kyle area with land clearing services across the greater Austin area and services throughout Hays County. Near Kyle that means Buda lots to the north, San Marcos acreage to the south, Niederwald and Uhland farm tracts on the blackland east, and commercial properties in Kyle along the interstate. Hill Country cedar west of town gets the 300-hp machine when it is old; blackland gets the skid steer and the dozer. For a pasture reclaim or other land improvement, I can read your EQIP plan and tell you what practice 314 pays per acre. Landscape clearing for one homesite or property clearing of a 40-acre field, Teo puts it on the board the day you call.