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Land Clearing Services in Lufkin, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Lufkin, lots to cutover tracts. I run a land clearing company serving landowners the way I wrote NRCS plans: every project gets a stem count, a written scope and a named machine before the price.
- Site prep for a house pad, shop or barn under pine
- Brush clearing with yaupon, privet and sweetgum mulched in place
- Selective clearing that opens the understory and keeps the saw timber
- Cutover cleanup after a timber harvest
- Full site clearing to dirt with grubbing and rough grading
- Stump grinding, $4 per inch of diameter, $175 minimum each stump
- Tree removal, hauled off at $650 to $1,200 per load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites on US 59 and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing and post-harvest work split the calendar in Lufkin, TX and the surrounding area; commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rate. A professional land clearing service in Lufkin asks when the tract was last cut, first question.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Lufkin and Diboll
Lufkin issued 95 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, most of the Angelina County total of 139, which rose 42 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 plus transport, 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 Lufkin tract starts with the boundary. Land along the national forest line gets surveyed pins before site work, because the mulcher does not know whose yaupon it is. Ground in the FEMA mapped floodplain along the river needs a county floodplain permit before dirt moves. Drainage on sandy loam is fast, so the pad is graded away from the slab and the mulch layer holds the sand. Send me the plat, and we will walk the property together.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Lufkin
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in place, and in timber country it is how you clear a tract and keep the crop standing. The county judge declares burn bans in dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, and the Texas A&M Forest Service posts the county wildfire risk and prescribed-burn notices that the national forest runs on. In understory the skid steer covers 3 to 5 acres a day and takes stems to about 8 inches. Areas with dense sweetgum or harvest slash go to the 300-hp machine with the 8 ft head.
Privet is the only hedge that plants itself and sends no bill. It resprouts from the root along with yaupon and sweetgum, so a mulched understory wants a bush hog or a light second pass in two years. Pine does not resprout. On our jobs in the Lufkin area the understory goes in at 70 to 90 percent cover and comes out under 5, with 2 to 4 inches of mulch on the sand. When I wrote EQIP plans, practice 314 covered understory the same as cedar, with one season of grazing deferment after. Property clearing under timber means remove brush, grind the stubs, keep the pines, and make your property open landscape instead of overgrown land.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Lufkin?
Land clearing costs in Lufkin run $1,200 to $2,000 an acre for pine understory and yaupon, set by stem count and cover percent on the site visit, with transport from Lindale listed separately. Hardwood stumps or harvest slash can add a day, and that goes on the quote before the acre price. The final number depends on the size of the tract, access and site conditions.
- Yaupon and pine understory mulched in place: $1,200 to $2,000 per acre
- Clearing to bare dirt, grubbed and rough graded: $2,000 to $4,500 per acre by density
- Half-acre lot: one skid steer day, $2,800 plus transport
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day; transport included only within 60 miles of a yard
- Dedicated 300-hp mulcher with the 8 ft head: $4,200 a day plus transport
- Dozer and operator at $160 an hour, haul-off $650 to $1,200 per load, $1,100 minimum trip
Large acreage clearing on a timber tract is quoted per acre, depending on site access and how much pine stays, and a three-day job spreads the transport thin. An approved EQIP plan under practice 314 pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form. Teo calls back before the end of the business day.
Serving Lufkin, Diboll, Hudson, Huntington and Nacogdoches
Our crews run land clearing services across East Texas, and Lufkin is the south anchor of that run, the center of the Lufkin metro. Diboll, south on US 59, is mill-town pine with small lots. Hudson, west on SH 94, is pasture and pine mixed. Huntington, east toward Sam Rayburn Reservoir, is where lake lots meet the forest. Nacogdoches, 20 miles north, has its own page. Services throughout the county carry the same price sheet. Property owners can read the Angelina County page or the East Texas region page.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Lufkin, TX
Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form with your acreage, your road and the year the tract was last cut. Teo takes every request at the Johnson City office and calls back before the end of the business day. Our crews are insured, the quote shows transport in writing, and land clearing projects get a written scope first. Land improvement under pine starts with the harvest history.
