Lot Clearing in Whitehouse, TX

Lot Clearing in Whitehouse

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 Whitehouse

Whitehouse is the first town south of Tyler on Hwy 110, the Troup Highway, and it has grown from a crossroads into one of the busiest homesite markets in Smith County. Lake Tyler and Lake Tyler East sit right on its east side, FM 346 runs out to Flint and Bullard on the west, and the ground in between is rolling pine and post oak timber that has been subdivided into acreage lots as fast as the school district could keep up. The soil is sandy and the understory is yaupon, which means every new owner here has the same first job: get into the woods they bought. I clear homesites along Hwy 110 and FM 346, open up lake lots on Lake Tyler so the owner can see the water, take out beetle-killed pines before they fall on something, and mulch the understory on tracts between Whitehouse and Teaselville so a family can actually use the acreage behind the house. Because so many of these lots back up to a neighbor or to the lake, the work is selective by nature. I keep the mulcher off the property line, leave the big trees, and grind the stumps so the yard mows clean. You get a per-acre or per-job price after a walk, and the price holds.

• 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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