Austin's Trusted Land Clearing & Brush Removal Experts

Turn overgrown property into clean, usable land with forestry mulching, cedar clearing and lot preparation across greater Austin and Central Texas.

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Land Clearing Before & After

Ground you cannot walk through, turned into ground you can use.

Brush and small stems grown in tight beneath a stand of mature trees BEFORE
The same ground opened to a walkable floor with a mulch mat down AFTER
A property edge closed in by dense scrub and low limbs BEFORE
The same edge cut back to open ground with the keeper trees left standing AFTER

What Our Customers Say

Real Cut Brush customers, in their own words.

★★★★★
"My 2-acre property was so thick you couldn't walk through it. One day later, it looked like a park."

– Jason M

Chatham County, NC

★★★★★
"Fast, honest, no drama. They quoted Tuesday, cleared Thursday. Done by Friday."

– Carrie D.

Raleigh, NC

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"We didn't realize how much land we had until Cut Brush cleared it."

– Tony & Lisa R.

Pittsboro, NC

From Overgrown to Usable in 3 Steps

A straightforward process from the first conversation to land you can use.

1

Request a Free Quote

Tell us what you want to do with your property. We review the acreage, access and finish, then give you a clear written quote.

2

We Clear Your Land

We complete the agreed scope with equipment suited to the brush and terrain while protecting the trees and areas you want to keep.

3

Enjoy Your Property

Use the opened ground for a homesite, pasture, trails or simply more room to enjoy the land you own.

What We Take On Around Austin

From a juniper-covered slope out toward Dripping Springs to a clay tract east of Manor.

Land Clearing

Land Clearing

Whole tracts opened across Travis, Williamson and Hays County, with the finish you are buying named in the quote before a machine is booked.
Forestry Mulching

Forestry Mulching

One tracked machine grinding standing brush and small stems in place, the material left down as a mat instead of stacked in piles nobody can burn.
Cedar & Understory Work

Cedar & Understory Work

Ashe juniper taken off the limestone hillsides and out from under the oaks, with the seedling question answered honestly before we start.
Lot & Homesite Prep

Lot & Homesite Prep

Pads, drives and utility runs on ground that is either thin soil over rock or clay that moves with the weather. Grading is scoped separately.

See Cut Brush in Action

Watch our crew transform overgrown properties with professional forestry mulching equipment.

  • Before & after project walkthroughs
  • Professional equipment on real jobs
  • See the land clearing process start to finish
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Growth on Both Sides of the Interstate

Georgetown has been named the fastest-growing city in the country in repeated Census releases and led a 2026 boomtown ranking with a 34 percent gain in housing units between 2019 and 2024, at close to 115,000 residents. It is not alone. Manor grew 185 percent between 2014 and 2023, and Leander, Hutto, Kyle and Pflugerville each added somewhere between 80 and 125 percent to their populations from 2010 to 2024. Out east, Whisper Valley is a 2,063 acre development with 7,500 homes planned. The metro median home price reached $435,000 in July 2026.

Very little of that land arrives open, and the two halves of it need different plans. Ranges for every kind of work are on the Austin pricing guide, the statewide picture is in our Texas land clearing cost per acre guide, and the mulching number specifically is broken down in our Austin forestry mulching cost guide.

Three Things That Decide a Central Texas Job

Half the year can be closed on the west side. On property containing golden-cheeked warbler habitat, clearing may not be conducted from March 1 through August 31, and Travis County states that no one, not even permit holders, can disturb that habitat during nesting season. The oak wilt window runs February 1 through June 30 on top of it, when oaks should not be cut and every wound has to be painted immediately. Put those together and the workable season on the limestone side is roughly September through February. That is not a detail to discover in May. It is the first thing we check, and it is why an Austin quote starts with a date rather than an acreage. Whether a given parcel is in habitat is a determination the governing authority makes.

Interstate 35 splits the county into two different jobs. West of it you are on Edwards Plateau limestone: thin soil over rock, where the machine is working against stone and the cost driver is how much material is standing on how little dirt. East of it you are in Blackland Prairie, where Houston Black soil runs 40 to 60 percent clay, cracks wide open in summer and sticks to every tool when it is wet. Manor sits squarely in it. The same acre of brush prices differently on the two sides, and a quote that does not mention which one you are on has not looked at your ground.

Cedar does not come back the way you have been told. Ashe juniper does not sprout from the stump. The US Forest Service species review classifies it as a tree without an adventitious-bud root crown and states that it does not reproduce asexually, so cutting it at the base ends that tree. What returns is a seedling carpet from the soil seed bank, and it is slow: seed can take two to three years to germinate and a stand can take 10 to 40 years to get above 4 feet. Mesquite and yaupon behave the other way and push new stems from the root system after cutting. Knowing which of those is on your acre is the difference between buying a clearing and buying a clearing plus a return visit, and we say which one you are looking at before we quote.

Serving Austin & Central Texas

Five counties around the metro: Travis and Williamson, south through Hays into Caldwell, and east into Bastrop.

Austin Round Rock Georgetown San Marcos Cedar Park Pflugerville Leander Kyle Hutto Buda Bastrop Manor Elgin Dripping Springs Liberty Hill Lockhart Bee Cave Lago Vista Wimberley Smithville Luling

Austin Land Clearing FAQ

If you are using a machine in the unincorporated county, yes. Travis County states it plainly: clearing that requires no grading and only hand tools does not require a permit, but clearing utilizing machinery does. There is no acreage threshold underneath that, which is what surprises people who expect a small tract to be exempt. The application asks for a site plan showing the area to be cleared, the methods, an erosion and sedimentation control plan and a stabilization plan. Requirements vary by parcel, scope and jurisdiction. Cut Brush can flag what commonly applies and help identify the right office, and the crew works to the permit you hold. The governing authority makes the determination. Our Austin and Travis County permit guide walks the whole sequence.
It depends on which side of the interstate you are on, and this is the single biggest scheduling difference between Austin and anywhere else we work. On property containing golden-cheeked warbler habitat, clearing may not be conducted from March 1 through August 31, and Travis County is blunt that no one, not even permit holders, can disturb that habitat during nesting season. Stack the February 1 to June 30 oak wilt window on top and the practical clearing season on the western limestone runs September through February. East of Interstate 35 the ground is Blackland Prairie clay outside that habitat, which is where spring and summer work goes. Whether your parcel is in habitat is a determination the governing authority makes, not us.
Plan on mulching. Texas prohibits open burning statewide except where 30 TAC 111 allows it, and on-site burning of plant growth from clearing is one of the allowed cases, so the answer is not a flat no. The problem is reliability. Inside Austin city limits open burning of limbs, leaves and trimmings is prohibited outright and permits are issued only for prescribed burns. County burn bans here are frequent, and a Williamson County ban explicitly covers burning trees, stumps and shrubs for land clearing purposes, with a violation carrying a fine of up to $500. Cut Brush does not offer burning as a disposal method in this market. Mulching leaves the material down as a mat and does not depend on a ban being lifted. Check current status with the Travis County Fire Marshal or Williamson County.
Not the way most people are told. Ashe juniper, the tree everyone here calls cedar, does not sprout from the stump or root crown after cutting: the US Forest Service species review classifies it as a tree without an adventitious-bud root crown and states it does not reproduce asexually. What comes back is a carpet of seedlings out of the soil seed bank, and those are slow. Seed may take two to three years to germinate, and it can take 10 to 40 years for a stand to reach over 4 feet tall. That is the opposite of mesquite and yaupon, which both push new stems from the root system after cutting. It changes what you should buy, and we explain it in our Ashe juniper removal guide.
Most work quotes between $1,500 and $4,500 per acre. Understory and regrowth work sits near the floor; whole-tract clearing with a graded finish sits near the ceiling. The honest local split is rock against clay: thin soil over limestone wears equipment and slows a machine differently than Blackland clay that sticks to everything when wet. The Austin pricing guide sets out every range and what moves it, and our Austin forestry mulching cost breakdown goes deeper on the mulching number. The walk-through that turns a range into a written figure is free.
Five counties around the metro. Travis County including Austin, Pflugerville, Manor, Bee Cave and Lago Vista. Williamson County including Round Rock, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Leander, Hutto and Liberty Hill. Hays County including San Marcos, Kyle, Buda, Dripping Springs and Wimberley. Bastrop County including Bastrop, Elgin and Smithville. Caldwell County including Lockhart and Luling. If your place is in the area and your town is not on the list, ask anyway.

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