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Land Clearing Services in Schertz, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Schertz with a skid steer mulcher and a dozer for the root crowns. I built a land clearing company serving ranch tracts, and I price a town lot the same way: stem count, soil moisture and a written scope for every project before the number.
- Site prep for a house pad, shop or detached garage
- Brush clearing with mesquite and huisache mulched in place
- Selective clearing that keeps pecans, live oak and the hackberry shade
- Full site clearing to dirt: grub crowns, rough grading, cleanup
- Stump grinding: $4 an inch across the cut, $175 minimum a stump
- Tree removal with the debris trucked out, $650 to $1,200 a load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites on I-35 and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing fills most weeks in Schertz, TX and the surrounding area, and commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rates. A professional land clearing service in Schertz knows which ordinance your lot sits under.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Schertz and Cibolo
Schertz issued 438 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, inside a Guadalupe County total of 1,546, down 19 percent from 2024. A half-acre lot is one skid steer day, $2,800, and we leave the site with mulch on the clay instead of a pile. 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 here runs through two city codes. Schertz and Cibolo both have tree ordinances, so protected trees are tagged before site work. Lots in the FEMA mapped floodplain along Cibolo Creek need a county floodplain development permit before dirt moves. Blackland is a sponge in March and a brick in August, so wet clay adds a day in the cool months and drainage means grading the pad to a swale on day one. Send me the plat and I will walk the property with you.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Schertz
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, and the mulcher floats on wet clay where a dozer sinks. The county judge declares burn bans in dry stretches and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, so a mulched lot with no pile never waits on the weather. The skid steer takes stems to about 8 inches, which covers nearly every mesquite in town.
Mesquite resprouts from the root crown after a cut, so mulching alone buys you about two seasons. Where you need it gone for good, the dozer grubs the crown at $160 an hour and the mulcher finishes. Huisache acts the same; hackberry does not, and it stays where you want shade. On our jobs in Guadalupe County, a mulched and grubbed lot holds clear for years with one bush hog pass a summer. When I wrote EQIP plans, mesquite reclaim under practice 314 was the plan ranchers asked for most, and the grass response the next spring was the proof. Property clearing on a lot is the same idea: remove brush, grind the stubs, keep the trees you like, and make your property buildable landscape instead of overgrown land. Areas with dense huisache run about half an acre a day.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Schertz?
Land clearing costs in Schertz start at $2,800 for a half-acre lot and run $900 to $4,000 an acre on bigger tracts, set by mesquite density on the site visit. Wet blackland adds a day from November to April and transport from Johnson City is a listed line; both come before the acre price. What you pay depends on the size of the tract and the site conditions I find.
- Light mesquite under 30 percent canopy: $900 to $1,400 an acre
- Medium density: $1,800 to $2,600 an acre
- Dense old mesquite: $3,000 to $4,000 an acre
- Full clearing to dirt with crowns grubbed and rough grade: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day, transport included only within 60 miles of a yard
- Grubbing with the dozer: $160 an hour with operator. Haul-off $650 to $1,200 a load. Minimum trip $1,100
Large acreage clearing is quoted per acre, depending on site access. For a lot comparison, 1.2 acres in Liberty Hill took one skid steer day at $2,800, and a Schertz lot that size prices the same before transport. An approved EQIP plan under practice 314 pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule on pasture. Call (832) 987-3495 or fill out the form. Teo will have a callback to you before the end of the business day.
Serving Schertz, Cibolo, Universal City, Converse and Selma
Our crews run land clearing services across the greater San Antonio area, and Schertz is where the San Antonio metro crosses into Guadalupe County and Central Texas blackland. Cibolo shares the clay, the mesquite and a tree ordinance. Universal City and Converse sit over the Bexar line on the same soil. Selma, at the I-35 and Loop 1604 corner, is mostly commercial pads. Services throughout the Hill Country and the blackland run on one price sheet. Untouched lots here read 30 to 50 percent mesquite canopy. Property owners can read the Guadalupe County page or the Hill Country region page, which carries the San Antonio market.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Schertz, TX
Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form with your lot size, your street and how long the brush has stood. Teo takes every request at the Johnson City office and calls back before the end of the business day. Our crews are insured, transport and the wet-clay day show on the quote, and land clearing projects start with that written scope. Land improvement on clay begins with the swale.
