Clearing, mulching, dirt work and demolition across Conroe, Willis, Montgomery, Tomball, New Caney and the north Houston ring.
Raw acreage, an overgrown lot, a pad that has to be right before a slab goes on it, a house or barn that needs to come down. That’s the work. Tell us the acreage, roughly what’s standing on it, and where it is, and we’ll walk it and put the scope in writing.
Which service do you need?
Most people arrive here knowing the problem and not the name of the fix. Find the row that sounds like your property.
| Your situation | What you need |
|---|---|
| Buying raw acreage you want to build on | Land clearing |
| Yaupon and tallow have taken over and you can’t walk the property | Land clearing |
| A residential lot in a subdivision or inside a city limit | Land clearing |
| You want the understory gone but the mature trees left standing | Forestry mulching |
| A house, barn, mobile home, pool or slab has to come down | Demolition |
| You need a pad cut, a trench run, or dirt moved | Excavation |
| Land is cleared, now it has to be shaped and drained before a slab | Site prep and grading |
| Stumps left from a clearing, or a few in a yard you’re mowing | Stump grinding |
| You want a stock pond, an irrigation pond, or an old one cleaned out | Ponds |
| You need fill, select fill or topsoil brought in — or spoil taken away | Dirt work |
| No drive to the building site yet, or the culvert has to go in first | Driveways and culverts |
Not sure which one? Describe the property on the quote form and we’ll tell you what it actually needs — including when it needs less than you thought.
What we do
Land clearing — full clearing for building pads, pasture, homesites and acreage. Trees, brush, stumps, roots.
Forestry mulching — grinds standing brush and small trees in place and leaves a mulch mat that holds soil and slows regrowth. No burn pile, no haul-off, and no burn-ban problem.
Excavation — pads, ponds, trenching, drainage, cut and fill, grading.
Demolition — houses, barns, mobile homes, slabs, outbuildings, pools. Interior and selective demo too.
Stump grinding and removal — after a clearing or on its own.
Brush and underbrush clearing — selective work that leaves the mature trees and takes out what’s underneath them.
Site prep and grading — building pads, driveways, laydown yards, RV pads.
Ponds — stock, irrigation and detention ponds, plus cleanout and repair of old ones.
Dirt work — fill, select fill and topsoil brought in, spoil hauled away, cut and fill.
Driveways and culverts — gravel and crushed concrete drives, and the culvert where they meet the road.
Where we work
Conroe · Willis · Montgomery · Tomball · New Caney · Porter · Splendora · Magnolia · Pinehurst · Dobbin · Todd Mission · Stagecoach · Decker Prairie · Cut and Shoot · Cleveland
All of Montgomery County, plus the north and northeast Houston ring. Larger acreage further out is worth asking about.
Town detail: Montgomery County · Conroe · Magnolia · Montgomery · Willis · New Caney · Porter · Splendora · Pinehurst · Cut and Shoot · Panorama Village · Cleveland · Huntsville TX · Tomball
What clearing land in Montgomery County actually involves
If you’ve bought acreage here and haven’t cleared land before, a few things are worth knowing before you start collecting quotes.
What’s growing on your land matters more than the acreage does. Most of this county is loblolly pine over a yaupon holly understory, and yaupon is the hard part. It’s dense, it’s woody, and it comes back from the root crown if it’s only cut off at the surface. Chinese tallow is worse — invasive, everywhere along the creek bottoms, and it resprouts aggressively from cut stumps and from root fragments left in the ground. An acre of open pasture and an acre of tallow-choked bottomland are the same acre on a plat and nowhere near the same job on the ground.
One pass does not permanently kill yaupon or tallow. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a result they can’t deliver. Mulching to adequate depth handles the standing material; what holds it back is follow-up on the resprouts in the next growing season. Plan for that rather than being surprised by it.
Burn bans decide your method. Montgomery County issues burn bans regularly, and during one you cannot dispose of clearing debris by burning. That leaves mulching in place or hauling off. Mulching is usually the better answer here, and it’s a large part of why forestry mulching has taken over so much of the work in this county. Check the county’s current burn status before you plan around a burn pile — it can change between the quote and the start date.
Clay holds water, and that decides your calendar. The soils across much of Montgomery County are clay-heavy, and clay shrinks and swells as moisture moves through it. Give it a wet stretch and it stops carrying equipment — a machine worked on it then leaves ruts and packed subsoil you will still be looking at a year later. A crew that shows up the day after four inches of rain and works anyway is costing you more than they’re charging you. Late fall into early spring is when the ground here is firmest and the vegetation is dormant, and that’s when most of this work ought to happen.
Stumps ground is not the same as stumps out. Grinding takes the stump flush to, or just below, grade and is fine for pasture or a lot you’re going to mow. If you’re pouring a slab or running utilities through it, you want the root ball out, and that’s excavation work, not clearing work. Decide which one your project needs before you compare quotes, because the two are not interchangeable.
Check the floodplain before you clear. Parts of the county along the San Jacinto, Lake Creek and the smaller tributaries carry floodplain and wetland designations, and the hardwood bottoms along those drainages are exactly where that comes up. A permit may be required depending on the jurisdiction and what you’re doing. Clearing in a regulated area without checking first can turn into a real problem. If what you’re describing sounds like it needs a look, we’ll say so.
Inside Conroe city limits there’s a tree ordinance. Conroe’s Chapter 102 protects trees six inches DBH and larger. Removal by a homeowner on an existing single-family lot is exempt, but other situations are not, and the rules are different again in the unincorporated county. Confirm which jurisdiction your property is actually in before you plan a clearing.
Why there’s no price list on this site
Density drives the number more than acreage does, and density is the one thing a satellite photo won’t show you. Quote a per-acre figure sight unseen and it moves once the machines are on the ground. We’d rather walk it and hand you a written scope than publish a range you end up measuring us against for the wrong property.
What we will tell you is exactly what moves the number, in detail, so you can read any contractor’s quote with informed eyes: how this work is priced.
Get a quote
Tell us the acreage, roughly what’s on it, where it is, and what you’re planning to do with the land. We walk it, then you get the scope in writing.
Not sure which service you need, or what to have ready? Tell us about the property and we’ll work it out. How we work and what we won’t do covers how we quote and what a written quote from us spells out.
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