Lot Clearing in Flint, TX

Lot Clearing in Flint

A lot of the ground changing hands around Tyler right now is wooded acreage bought by people moving in from Dallas or Houston who want a house in the trees. Lot clearing is turning that raw parcel into a place a builder can work: opening the footprint for the house, the driveway and the septic area, taking out the trees in the way, grinding the stumps so nothing sprouts under the slab, and mulching the understory on the rest so the lot is walkable and clean. I clear lots across Smith County, from one-acre homesites in Flint and Whitehouse to five and ten-acre ranchettes in Bullard, Lindale and Chandler and lake lots around Lake Palestine and Lake Tyler. The mistake I see most is over-clearing. Mature loblolly pines and post oaks take a lifetime to replace, and they are the reason the lot cost what it did. I plan the clearing around where the house, drive and utilities go, leave the trees worth keeping, and hand the builder a lot that is ready for his dirt crew instead of a bare sand pad baking in the sun.

Land clearing in Flint

Flint is the unincorporated country southwest of Tyler along Old Jacksonville Highway (FM 2493), Hwy 155 and FM 346, and it is where South Tyler is growing fastest. Gresham on the north end runs straight into the city, Noonday is just down the road, Lake Palestine is a few minutes west, and the south end of Loop 49 has put all of it within an easy drive of town. The result is that wooded tracts that were pasture or timber for generations are being carved into acreage homesites, and every one of them has the same yaupon understory under the pines and post oaks. I spend a lot of my year in Flint. I open house pads and drives on new lots off FM 2493 and FM 346, mulch understory on tracts so the owner can walk them, clear the lots on the east side of Lake Palestine along Hwy 155 so there is a view, take down dead pines before a storm does it, and clear fence lines for the small horse places that are everywhere out here. The soil is deep sand, which makes mulching the right call: a chip layer keeps a fresh clearing from washing down the slope toward the lake. One operator, one machine, a per-acre or per-job price set after a walk.

• Wooded and brushy lots opened for a house, shop or barn
• House pad, driveway and septic area cleared with working room
• Trees in the footprint removed, stumps ground below grade
• Understory mulched so the rest of the lot is clean and walkable
• Mature pines and oaks worth keeping left standing
• Lot left ready for the builder and the dirt contractor

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