Crosscut Land Clearing handles land clearing in Bertram, TX and across Central Texas for landowners who want their property usable again. We take out brush, unwanted trees, invasive growth and dense undergrowth, and we keep the native trees and natural features you want left standing. The work runs from small residential lots to large ranch properties.
No two tracts get the same treatment. Rocky ground, cedar thickets, mesquite pasture and heavy timber each call for a different machine and a different plan, so every job starts the same way: one of the owners walks the property with you and works out what stays, what goes and how to get there.
Why landowners clear in the first place
Most people call us because the land has gotten away from them. Brush has swallowed the pasture, cedar is crowding the oaks, or they can’t walk from the house to the back fence anymore.
Clearing done right fixes more than the view. It gives grass and mature trees room to breathe, and when the cut material is mulched in place it helps the soil hold water and keeps the ground covered.
- Get rid of overgrowth, brush and unwanted trees
- Help mature trees by removing the brush competing with them
- More soil moisture and healthier grass where mulch is left behind
- Better visibility and habitat on hunting land
- More grazing room for livestock
- Less erosion and an easier property to manage long term
Site prep, build sites and lot clearing
A lot of our work is getting ground ready for something new: a house, a barn, a shop or a driveway. We clear the build site, take out the trees and stumps in the way, and can rough-grade the pad with the Cat D1 dozer so your builder starts on open ground.
Lot clearing in Austin and the towns around it usually means tighter quarters and more trees worth saving. Smaller machines and a hand crew with chainsaws handle the detail work close to the house line and around the trees you’re keeping.
Complete clearing or large acreage
Some tracts need everything opened up. On complete clearing and large acreage jobs, the Tigercat M726G works dense cedar and heavy brush on open ground, and the Timberpro TL725C takes the steep, rocky and tight spots where a wheeled machine shouldn’t go.
Pace depends on how thick the growth is, the terrain, the size of the trees and what you want the finished ground to look like. After the walk-through, the owner gives you a schedule built around your property instead of a number pulled from a brochure.
Large tracts often mix several kinds of work: cedar mulching on the slopes, mesquite grubbing in the bottoms, a build site near the road. We plan it as one job so the machines move across the property in a sensible order.
Tree removal and stumps
Bigger timber that has to come down whole goes to the Tigercat 720 cutter, which cuts and lifts the tree instead of dropping it where it might land on something you care about. Smaller trees are usually mulched right where they stand.
Stumps get handled for what comes next on that ground. On a pasture or a trail they can be ground down with a mulching head. On a build site or a food plot, the John Deere dozer with a root rake pulls them out along with roots and rock.
Mulch it, don’t burn it
Most of what we clear gets mulched where it stands. That means no burn piles, no hauling brush off-site, and no waiting on a burn ban to lift. Mulching can be done year round, and the layer it leaves shades the soil and protects root systems.
Where the plan calls for grubbing, raking or breaking up rock, we bring the dozers and skid steers that do that work. One crew handles the whole job instead of three contractors trading off.
What the job can include
- Complete land clearing
- Large acreage land clearing
- Lot clearing
- Site prep and build site clearing
- Tree removal and stump removal
- Brush and underbrush removal
- Rough grading of pads
- Hand-crew chainsaw work around trees you keep