Land Clearing New Braunfels, TX: Lot Clearing, Brush Removal and Forestry Mulching Services in New Braunfels and Seguin

Land Clearing Services in New Braunfels, TX

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in New Braunfels, from a half-acre lot on FM 306 to a 60-acre tract up the river. I run a land clearing company serving ranchers first, so every project gets a canopy reading and a written scope before a price.

• Site prep for a house pad, shop or barn
• Brush clearing with cedar or mesquite mulched in place
• Selective clearing: cedar out, live oaks and pecans kept
• Full site clearing to dirt with grubbing, haul-off and rough grading
• Stump grinding: $4 an inch across the cut, $175 minimum a stump
• Tree removal with haul-off, $650 to $1,200 a load
• Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites along I-35 and pipeline rows

Residential land clearing is most of the work in New Braunfels, TX and the surrounding area. Commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rates. I run a professional land clearing service in New Braunfels, not a landscape crew.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in New Braunfels and Seguin

New Braunfels issued 879 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, half of the Comal County total of 1,726, which fell 24 percent from 2024. A half-acre lot is one skid steer day, $2,800, and we leave the site with mulch down and no cleanup pile. Site preparation ends at rough grading. I do not do excavation for a slab, concrete, wells or septic. I know people who do.

The land clearing process on a lot here starts with which side of I-35 you are on. West side lots on mapped Edwards Aquifer recharge land need a TCEQ Water Pollution Abatement Plan before site work. Canyon Lake frontage runs under GBRA shoreline rules. East side blackland holds water, so drainage means grading the pad to a swale before the first rain, and a wet November adds a day. Send me the plat and I will walk the property with the rules in hand.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near New Braunfels

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in one pass, with no pile left behind. That matters here because the county judge declares burn bans most dry summers and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern every pile. The skid steer handles stems to about 8 inches. Areas with dense old-growth cedar west of town go to the 300-hp mulcher with the 8 ft head, 6 to 8 acres a day.

Cedar, which is ashe juniper, regrows from seed and not from the stump, so a mulched tract stays open if we grind the seedlings every few years. Mesquite is the opposite: cut it and it resprouts from the root crown, so east side mesquite gets grubbed where it matters. AgriLife research shows a mature cedar canopy intercepts the first inch of rain. A cow will tell you where the water is before a hydrologist will, and on tracts taken under 10 percent canopy the seeps come back. Mature cedar-oak canopy is golden-cheeked warbler habitat, so that work runs outside the March to July window, and live oaks go unwounded February to June for oak wilt. Selective property clearing is the way to clear overgrown land: remove brush, keep the oaks, make your property open again.

Serving New Braunfels, Seguin, Schertz, San Marcos and Canyon Lake

Our crews run land clearing services across the greater San Antonio area, and New Braunfels is the I-35 corner of the San Antonio metro where cedar meets blackland. Seguin, east on I-10, is mesquite and post oak country with its own page. Schertz sits between on blackland clay. San Marcos is the Hays County side of the same cedar, and the lake tracts north on FM 306 are the steepest ground we work. Services throughout the Hill Country run on one price sheet. On our jobs here untouched cedar reads 40 to 60 percent canopy. Property owners can read the Comal County page or the Hill Country region page.