Land & Lot Clearing

Density first: scattered cedar on level grassland moves quickly, while a continuous thicket you cannot walk through can take three times as long per acre. Then stem size, terrain and selectivity. Light cedar on flat ground is the easy end. Dense mixed timber on a steep limestone slope with dozens of flagged keeper trees is the hard end. Larger parcels go faster per acre, because mobilising the equipment takes the same effort either way.

A tracked machine with a rotating drum grinds standing vegetation into chip where it stands, in a single pass. There is no burning, no hauling and no piles to dispose of. The chip layer left behind holds soil against heavy rain, suppresses regrowth for a season or two and breaks down into organic matter, which matters on thin Hill Country soil.

It depends on location and scale. Inside Austin city limits, tree protection ordinances apply to trees above certain diameters even on undeveloped land. Outside city limits, requirements are lighter but development, floodplain and Edwards Aquifer recharge zone rules can still apply. We identify what applies to your parcel during the survey.

Yes, and this is the core of how we work. We walk the parcel with you before anything starts and flag every tree that stays. Operators work around flagged trees and we take care to avoid compacting soil inside their root zones, which is the damage people usually only notice two years later.

A single acre of light cedar can be done in a day. Dense growth on rough terrain runs closer to two or three days per acre. We give you an acreage-per-day estimate after walking the site, and mobilisation is usually within one to two weeks outside storm season.