Serving El Campo, TX
RLS Land Solutions does land clearing in El Campo and the country around it. This is rice and cattle country, and brush takes the edges first. Macartney rose runs the fence lines. Huisache comes up in pasture that has been rested. Chinese tallow takes the ditch banks and the low wet spots. We clear it with excavators that start at 50,000 pounds. The machine pushes the tree over and lifts the root ball out with it. Brush and timber get loaded into our tandem dump trucks. It goes to a green-waste dump site we own. What you get back is open ground.
We are the Comparetto family, out of Needville, about 29 miles up US 59. Fifteen years of this work has mostly been acreage. Land clearing around El Campo comes from a few directions. Farm and cattle operations want the edges of their ground back. People buying acreage want a homesite opened up. Builders and solar developers want whole tracts stripped before dirt work. We have cleared thousands of acres on utility-scale solar projects. Our jobs start around $10,000. Tell us the acreage and what is standing on it.
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Farm ground around El Campo does not lose acres in the middle. It loses them at the edges. Brush creeps out of the fence line and the ditch bank a few feet a year. Ten years of that takes a real bite out of a field. On cattle ground the same thing happens around the tanks and along the draws. Macartney rose is the worst of it here. Cattle will not push through it, and a shredder only trims the top. We dig it out with the excavator so the crown and roots come up together.
Getting acres back is simple math for a farm operation. An edge that has grown in 30 feet on all four sides of a quarter section is real acreage. Clearing it costs once. Farming or grazing it pays every year after that. We work the perimeter with the machine and pull the material into piles inside the field. The trucks pick the piles up as they build. On rice ground we stay off the levees and turn rows we are told to leave alone. Tell us where the pipe and pumps are before we start.
A fence you cannot see is a fence you cannot fix. Brush along a fence line hides broken wire and rotten posts. It also gives cattle a place to push through. We clear a working width down the line so a truck can drive it. The excavator takes the trees and the root balls. Anything that would drop into the wire comes out first. If the fence is coming out too, we can clear the line and leave it open for new posts. Most of these jobs run by the mile rather than the acre.
Field roads and headlands go the same way. Equipment has gotten wider over the years. A turn row that fit a four-row planter does not fit what farms this ground now. We open the row back to the width you want and take the brush hanging over it. Low limbs that scrape a combine come off with the tree. Where a road crosses a ditch we can shape the crossing while the machine is there. Clearing and light dirt work in one trip costs less than two mobilizations. Ask for both when you call and we plan it that way.
Houston keeps pushing out, and land west of it keeps selling. People buy 10, 20 or 40 acres around El Campo and find it grown up. The tract looks like pasture from the road. Behind the front fence it is brush. Before a house goes anywhere, somebody has to open the building envelope, the drive and the yard. We clear what you point at and leave the rest standing. Most people keep the big live oaks and the shade near the house. We work around marked trees and take the brush between them.
Root holes matter more on a homesite than in a pasture. A root ball leaves a hole, and loose spoil settles for years. Under a slab or a driveway that shows up as a low spot or a crack. So we fill the holes and compact as we go. Then the ground is ready for a pad. We can bring select fill from our own pits and build the pad on the same trip. On acreage that has never been built on, that is usually the next step anyway. Clearing and fill move faster when the same outfit runs both.
From the first look at the ground to the last pass of the grade, here is exactly how it goes.
We meet you at the property and read the job off the ground itself: what is growing, where water sits, how trucks and excavators get in. Big dirt work prices off what is really out there.
You get a free quote with a real number and a real plan: what gets dug or cleared, how many loads move, where the dirt comes from or goes. It holds unless the scope changes.
The equipment shows up when we said. Excavators dig, trucks run in rotation, and on deadline jobs we run shifts around the clock until the volume is moved.
The last pass matters as much as the first load. Pads compacted and holding elevation, ponds shaped and ready for water, ground graded so it drains. We look at the finished work with you before we leave.
What El Campo property owners ask us most about land clearing. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
A pond you have been putting off, a pad that needs building, land that needs clearing, or a job that needs truckloads of select fill? Call or send the form. Tell us where the property is and what you want the land to do, and we will set a time to come look at it.
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