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Land Clearing Services in Longview, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Longview, from an infill lot inside Loop 281 to a 60-acre lease tract toward the Sabine. I am a land clearing company serving landowners first, and every project is scoped in writing by stem count and machine before the price.
- Site prep for a house pad, shop or metal building
- Brush clearing: yaupon, privet and sweetgum mulched in place under the pines
- Selective clearing that opens the understory and keeps the saw timber
- Full site clearing to dirt with grubbing, rough grading and cleanup
- Stump grinding at $4 an inch, $175 minimum per stump
- Tree removal with haul-off at $650 to $1,200 a load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites on US 259 and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing is most of the calendar in Longview, TX and the surrounding area; commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rate. A professional land clearing service in Longview finds the old lease roads and well pads before the machine does.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Longview and Kilgore
Longview issued 144 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, most of the Gregg County total of 186, which rose 7 percent from 2024. Rural tracts need no building permit, so permits understate the work. A half-acre lot under pine is one skid steer day, $2,800, and we leave the site mulched with nothing to burn. Site preparation ends at rough grading. Excavation for the slab, concrete, wells and septic are not mine. I know people who do.
The land clearing process on a Longview lot has one county gate: ground in the FEMA mapped floodplain along the Sabine River needs a Gregg County floodplain permit before site work. Drainage on sandy loam moves fast, so the pad is graded away from the slab line and the mulch layer holds the sand through spring. In the Piney Woods the sun reaches the ground about as often as the loblolly allows. Send the plat and I will walk the property with you.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Longview
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, and under pine it is the only way to clear the brush without clearing the timber. The county judge declares burn bans in dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, and the Texas A&M Forest Service wildfire risk rating for this county is built on the yaupon fuel we grind. The skid steer takes stems to about 8 inches and runs 3 to 5 acres a day in understory. Areas with dense sweetgum go to the 300-hp machine with the 8 ft head.
Yaupon, sweetgum and privet resprout from the root, so a mulched understory wants a bush hog or a light second pass in two years. Pine does not resprout, so I grind around the crop trees. We cleared 15 acres of pine understory and yaupon in Smith County in 3 days for $11,400, every pine over 8 inches left standing, and a tract here with the same cover prices the same. On an old lease I pull the Railroad Commission plat for plugged wells and flowlines and flag them; the mulcher stays 15 feet off every marker. Property clearing on a lease tract means remove brush, grind the stubs, keep the pines, and make your property usable landscape instead of overgrown land.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Longview?
Land clearing costs in Longview run $1,200 to $2,000 an acre for pine understory and yaupon, set by stem count and cover percent on the site visit. Hardwood stumps, buried lease debris or a wet spring can each add a day, listed before the acre price. The total depends on the size of the tract and site conditions.
- Pine understory and yaupon mulching: $1,200 to $2,000 an acre
- Full clearing to dirt with rough grade: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre by density
- Half-acre lot: one skid steer day, $2,800
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day, transport included within 60 miles of Lindale
- 300-hp mulcher $4,200 a day plus transport, 8 ft head
- Dozer with operator $160 an hour; haul-off $650 to $1,200 a load; minimum trip $1,100
Large acreage clearing on a timber or lease tract is quoted per acre, depending on site access and how much pine stays. An approved EQIP plan under practice 314 pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate. Call (832) 987-3495 or fill out the form. Teo will have a callback to you before the end of the business day.
Serving Longview, Kilgore, White Oak, Hallsville and Gladewater
Our crews run land clearing services across East Texas from Lindale, and Longview is the east end of our I-20 run, the center of the Longview metro. Kilgore, southwest on US 259, is the oilfield side with the most lease tracts. White Oak and Gladewater, west along I-20, are pine and pasture toward the Upshur line. Hallsville, east in Harrison County, is pine plantation ground where the 300-hp machine earns its transport. Services throughout the county run on one price sheet. On our jobs in the Longview area idle understory reads 70 to 90 percent cover. Property owners can read the Gregg County page or the East Texas region page.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Longview, TX
Send the form with your acreage, your road and whether it is an old lease, or call (832) 987-3495. Teo logs every request at the Johnson City office and calls back before the end of the business day. Our crews are insured, the estimate is free within 60 miles of Lindale, and land clearing projects get a written scope first. Land improvement on a lease tract starts with the well plat.
