Spring Branch, TX land clearing from our home base
9 Arrow Land Service does land clearing in Spring Branch, TX, where our family-owned company is based. We clear acreage, home sites, fence lines and old brush piles along US 281 and back into the cedar.
- Family-owned and based in Spring Branch
- No burn piles, no hauling, no mess
- Compact track machines for slopes and tight access
- Estimates by the day or by the acre
Who does land clearing in Spring Branch, TX?
9 Arrow Land Service does land clearing in Spring Branch, TX, and Spring Branch is the company's home base. The family-owned crew clears home sites, acreage, cedar, brush and old dozer piles with forestry mulchers that grind vegetation where it stands. Nothing gets pushed, piled, burned or hauled off unless you ask for it.
What Spring Branch land looks like before clearing
Spring Branch sits in western Comal County along US 281, north of Bulverde and west of Canyon Lake. The community is named for a spring-fed creek that flows into the Guadalupe River, and plenty of Spring Branch property drops toward that river on limestone slopes.
Most Spring Branch tracts carry the same mix. Ashe juniper, the tree everyone here calls cedar, crowds the gaps between live oaks. Soil runs thin over rock. Fence lines disappear under brush. That mix is why selective clearing makes sense on most Spring Branch tracts, taking out the cedar and brush and keeping the oaks that shade the place.
Know the ground
29.88° N, 98.41° W · Comal County
Spring Branch ground, from the river to the ridge
Spring Branch is home ground for our crew. This is what we plan around on land clearing jobs between US 281 and the Guadalupe River.
- County
- Western Comal County along US 281, around Smithson Valley
- Water
- The Guadalupe River and spring-fed Honey Creek, with Canyon Lake just east
- Ground
- Edwards Plateau limestone: thin soil on the uplands, steep bluffs along the river
- Typical land
- Acreage homesites and small ranches on well and septic
- Watch for
- Comal County burn bans, oak wilt in live oak stands, and old-growth juniper where golden-cheeked warblers nest
- Nearby
- Guadalupe River State Park and Honey Creek State Natural Area
Land clearing in Spring Branch, job by job
Land clearing in Spring Branch covers more than knocking down trees. The work we take on here includes the jobs below.
- Opening home sites and driveways on acreage with land clearing for a building site, grubbing roots only where the slab goes
- Thinning cedar brakes through cedar removal that leaves the live oaks standing
- Grinding old bulldozer piles, some as large as a house, instead of burning them
- Turning loose surface rock into road base with on-site rock crushing
- Fine-grading pads and trenching waterlines 3 inches and smaller
A home-base crew on Spring Branch ground
9 Arrow Land Service is family-owned and run by John and Camille Wheelock. John comes from Texas ranching roots and a construction background that includes custom home building. In 2014 a project with a land developer and surveyor introduced him to forestry mulching, and that work became the core of the business.
Spring Branch is home base, and we treat every tract here as if it were our own. From Spring Branch we also handle land clearing in Bulverde down US 281 and land clearing in Canyon Lake to the east. It does not get better.
Machines matched to Spring Branch slopes and acreage
Spring Branch ground runs from steep, rocky lots to open acreage, so the machine has to fit the property. Compact track machines handle tight access, slopes and uneven ground. Large articulated wheel machines bring high horsepower for production work on bigger tracts. Our equipment includes a CAT 275 compact track loader and a Weiler M860A mulcher.
Pace depends on density and terrain. Smaller machines clear about half an acre to 1 acre in an 8-hour day. Large machines run about 1 to 3 acres a day with reasonable tree coverage. Root balls stay in the ground, which keeps thin Spring Branch soil from washing downhill.
Serving Spring Branch from Spring Branch
Spring Branch is in Comal County. Our crew is based in Spring Branch and works across Central Texas and the Hill Country.
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John is one of the best in the business. 9 Arrow has cleared over a dozen properties for me, and every project has been handled with exceptional attention to detail.
We exclusively use 9 Arrow for all land clearings, lot lines, and site prep scopes for our Texas projects. They are exceptional, keep up with our overwhelming volume, and deliver a level of quality and responsiveness we haven't seen anyone else rival.
Questions from Spring Branch landowners
What affects the cost of land clearing in Spring Branch?
Land clearing cost in Spring Branch comes down to cedar density, tree size and species, slope, soil conditions and how easily a machine can reach and move around the work. A rocky lot dropping toward the Guadalupe prices differently than a flat tract off US 281. Estimates come by the day or by the acre.
Do you pull stumps when clearing a Spring Branch lot?
Stumps on a Spring Branch lot are ground down while the root balls stay in place, which holds thin soil on slopes. Where a foundation or garage pad is planned, we grub the roots out with dozers and excavators and then mulch the root balls on site instead of hauling them away.
Is Spring Branch too rocky for forestry mulching?
Spring Branch rock slows forestry mulching down without stopping it. Compact track machines are built for rocky, uneven ground and slopes, and pace depends on density and terrain. Loose limestone on the surface can even work in your favor when we crush it on site into road base for a driveway or ranch road.
Are there golden-cheeked warblers on Spring Branch land?
There can be. The endangered golden-cheeked warbler nests in old-growth Ashe juniper and live oak woodland around Spring Branch. Clearing young cedar and brush is a different job from taking out a mature juniper stand, so tell us about old cedar on your land early. Endangered species questions go to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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