05 — Clearing
Land clearing & cedar removal
Brush pushed back, fence lines opened, lots made usable — and the trees worth keeping left standing.
Cedar takes a place over quietly
Leave a Hill Country lot alone for a few years and Ashe juniper does the rest. It fills in under the oaks, chokes the fence line, takes the water the hardwoods need and turns a walkable few acres into something you cannot get a mower — or a fire truck — through.
Clearing is about deciding what the ground is for, then taking out everything that is in the way of that.
What gets cleared
- Fence lines — opened up wide enough to build straight and keep it standing
- Lots and building pads — cleared for a house, a barn, a shop or a pad site
- Pasture and paddock — cedar and scrub off grazing ground
- Driveways and access — a track wide enough for a truck and trailer
- Defensible space — fuel pulled back from the structures
Selective, not scraped
A machine can flatten everything, and sometimes that is what a build needs. Most of the time it is the wrong answer. We walk the property with you first and mark what stays — the mature live oaks, the pecans, the shade on the west side of the house — then clear around them without wrecking the root zones by driving over them all day.
Where the material goes
Brush gets chipped, and the good wood gets cut for firewood rather than wasted. What we do not do is bulldoze the lot into a burn pile in the corner and leave you looking at it — that pile is still your problem next year. Stumps in the way of a build get ground out as part of the same job.
Acreage
How it is priced
By what is actually on it.
Density, stem size, slope, how close the equipment can get and how much material has to leave the property. Two acres of open pasture with scattered cedar is a different job to two acres of solid thicket, and the quote should say so.
- Walked before it is quotedNo numbers invented from a satellite photo.
- Keep list agreed firstMarked on site so nothing good gets taken.
- Material handledChipped, cut for firewood or hauled — not piled.
Questions
Clearing, answered.
Can you clear part of a lot and leave the rest?
That is how most Hill Country clearing should be done. We walk it with you first and mark what stays — the mature oaks, the pecans, anything giving shade to the house — then take out the cedar and scrub around them.
What happens to all the brush?
It gets chipped or hauled. What we do not do is push everything into a pile in the corner and call the job finished — that pile is still your problem a year later.
Do you clear fence lines?
Yes, and it is one of the most common acreage jobs we get: opening a line back far enough that a new fence can go in straight and the old one stops getting pushed over.
How is clearing quoted?
By what is actually on the ground — density, stem size, slope, access for equipment and how much has to leave the property. Someone walks it before you get a number.
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