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Pollard's Dozer Service Land Clearing & Dirt Work · Buna TX
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Land Clearing in Buna, TX

Land Clearing · Buna, TX

From Thicket to Workable Ground

Land clearing is the heart of what we do around Buna, Vidor, Silsbee, Lumberton and all across Southeast Texas. This is Big Thicket country — leave a piece of ground alone for a few years and the pine, sweetgum, yaupon and briar close it back up. When you're ready to use that land again, we bring the dozer and open it up: trees pushed out, brush cleared, and the ground left clean enough to grade, build on, fence, or turn back into pasture.

We've been clearing this corner of Texas since 1999, three generations of the same family, and the jobs run the whole range — a couple of acres for a homesite, a fence line choked in brush, a whole tract opened up for cattle or hay. Once the land is clear, the same crew handles the dirt work, grading or a pond, so the property gets finished in one pass instead of three contractors.

What We Handle

  • Wooded lots and acreage cleared
  • Homesite and building-site clearing
  • Pasture reclamation and fence lines
  • Overgrown tracts opened back up
  • Brush piled, burned or hauled per the job
  • Our own dozer and tracked equipment
  • Grading, dirt work and ponds on the same visit
  • Free on-site estimates

Free Land Clearing Estimate

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How We Clear Land

Every clearing job starts with a walk. We look at what's growing, what you want gone, what's worth keeping — shade oaks stay if you want them — and how the ground runs when it rains. Then the dozer goes to work: trees pushed, brush stacked, and the mess worked into piles instead of scattered across your property. What happens to the debris is your call and part of the estimate up front — pile it to burn, or haul it off.

The difference between a clearing job you're happy with and one you regret is what the ground looks like after the brush is gone. We finish our clearing with the blade: roots and slash worked out, holes and ruts knocked down, and the dirt left smooth enough to mow, grade or build on. If the plan calls for a pad or a driveway next, we roll straight into the dirt work while the equipment is already on site.

Southeast Texas Ground Is Its Own Animal

Clearing land around Buna isn't like clearing land in the Hill Country. The growth here is thick and fast — loblolly pine, sweetgum, yaupon that mats into a wall — and the ground swings between loose sandy uplands and gumbo clay bottoms that hold water for weeks after a rain. Push a job at the wrong time with the wrong machine and you leave ruts a truck disappears into.

That's where growing up on this dirt pays off. We know when a bottom will carry a dozer and when it won't, how the sand cuts different from the clay, and what this climate does to a cleared tract the first wet winter. It's the difference between hiring equipment and hiring people who've worked this exact ground since 1999.

Clearing That Sets Up the Next Step

Nobody clears land just to look at dirt. There's always a next step — a house pad, a barn, a fence, cattle, a food plot, a pond — and the clearing should set that step up instead of leaving it half done. Tell us what the land is for and we'll clear it with that end in mind: grades roughed toward the plan, debris staged where it won't be in the way, and the good topsoil kept where you'll want it.

If the growth is more brush than timber, dozer clearing may not even be the right tool — forestry mulching grinds it in place with no burn pile at all, and we'll tell you straight which one your land calls for. Either way it starts the same: call, we walk the property together, and you get a free estimate with a real number on it.

John Deere dozer pushing into a pine thicket on a land clearing job Freshly cleared and graded field at sunset with the brush piled at the tree line

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What You Can Expect

How a Job With Pollard's Runs

From the first walk of the property to the last pass of the blade, here is exactly how it goes.

1

Walk the Land

We come see the property — the trees, the brush, the ground under it, and how wet it runs. What you want cleared, what's worth keeping, and what the job really takes. No blind quotes over the phone.

2

Straight Estimate

You get a free estimate with a real number and a real timeline. It covers what's included — clearing, dirt, shaping, debris — and it holds unless the scope changes.

3

Bring the Iron

The dozer, excavator or mulcher shows up when we said and does the job the way we quoted it. Anything unexpected in the ground, you hear about it immediately, not on the invoice.

4

Leave It Right

We walk the finished ground with you before we call it done. Clean lines, shaped banks, a pad you can build on or a pasture you can mow. Done means you say it's done.

FAQ

Land Clearing Questions, Answered

Common questions about land clearing across Buna & Southeast Texas. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.

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How much does land clearing cost in Southeast Texas?
It depends on the acreage, how heavy the growth is, ground conditions, and what happens to the debris. Light brush runs a lot less per acre than mature timber and thicket. We walk the property, then give you a free estimate with a real number — no phone guessing. Our blog has a cost guide with honest market ranges.
Can you clear just part of a property?
Absolutely — most jobs aren't whole tracts. We clear building sites, fence lines, shooting lanes, trails and pasture edges all the time, and we can work around the trees you want to keep. Flag what stays, and the dozer works around it.
What happens to the trees and brush?
Your choice, priced into the estimate up front: most jobs around here pile the debris for burning on site, and hauling off is an option when burning isn't. What we don't do is leave a scattered mess — debris ends up staged in piles, not strung across the property.
Do you remove stumps?
We don't do stump grinding — that's a service we don't offer, and we'll tell you that straight instead of taking the job anyway. When we clear with the dozer, we'll talk through exactly what the finished ground will look like on the walk-through so there are no surprises.
How soon can you look at my property?
Call (409) 289-0802 and we'll set a time to walk it — usually within days, not weeks. Estimates are free, and if the job's better suited to mulching than dozer clearing, we'll say so on the spot.
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Brush Clearing in Buna, TX

Brush Clearing

Yaupon, briar and underbrush cleaned out of lots, woods and fence lines — the growth goes, the trees you want stay.

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Dirt Work in Buna, TX

Dirt Work

House pads, barn pads, gravel driveways and fill — dirt hauled, placed, shaped and packed so what you build on it stays put.

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Excavation in Buna, TX

Excavation

Site digging, ditch and drainage work, culvert setting and dig-outs — our own excavator, run by the people whose name is on it.

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Grading & Leveling in Buna, TX

Grading & Leveling

Rough, rutted or washed-out ground graded smooth and sloped to drain — pastures, yards, building sites and everything between.

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Ponds in Buna, TX

Ponds

Stock ponds, fishing ponds and retention ponds — dug, shaped and banked right, with the spoil dirt put to work on your land.

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Why Choose Pollard's

Why Southeast Texas Landowners Call Us

Three Generations Deep

Started by Grandpa in 1999, run by Dad today, with the third generation on the iron. The name on the machine is the family doing the work — and answering the phone.

One Crew, Whole Job

Dozer, excavator and tracked mulcher under one roof. Clearing, dirt work, grading and the pond get done as one job with one estimate — not three contractors pointing at each other.

Straight Answers, Free Estimates

We walk the property, tell you what the ground actually needs — and what it does not — and hand you a real number. No phone guesses, no surprise extras.

Southeast Texas Born

Sandy uplands, gumbo clay bottoms, wet winters and brush that never quits — this is the only dirt we have ever worked, and we build for what it does.

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Get In Touch With Pollard's Dozer Service

Land to clear, a pad to build, brush that's won too many summers, or a pond you've been thinking about for years? Call or send the form and we'll walk the property with you and hand you a free estimate — straight answers from the family that's worked this dirt since 1999.

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