Land Clearing
Land clearing for building lots and acreage across Burleson and the Fort Worth area. Brush, cedar, mesquite and unwanted trees pushed out, hauled off and the ground graded.
We run bulldozer services out of Burleson, TX, for building lots and acreage across the Fort Worth area. That covers southern Tarrant County and northern Johnson County, including Crowley, Mansfield, Joshua and Alvarado. Our dozer work covers land clearing, pond dams, building pads, rough grading and spreading fill. Each dozer service job starts with a free estimate, priced at the property.
Decades of demolition and dirt work stand behind Texas Best Demolition, which launched in late 2024. Its team ran dirt work and roll-off dumpster businesses before, and about 20 people work here today. A very large ranch pond is in progress, alongside 17-18 house demolitions running at the same time. Tell us about your dozer job, and we will come look at the ground.
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A dozer is a heavy machine with a wide steel blade, built to push and shape the ground. When we clear cedar and mesquite off acreage, the dozer pushes the brush into piles for loading. On ranch land, the blade helps us cut and shape stock tank and pond dams. On a building site, it cuts and builds house, shop and barn pads to the elevations the builder gives us.
The same blade handles rough grading and leveling on lots with ruts and low spots. When a lot runs short of dirt, the dozer spreads fill that our trailers bring in. After we tear down an old house, the dozer pushes the lot back to grade. At the estimate, show us the plan or tell us what the ground should look like when the dozer leaves.
A dozer pushes, spreads and shapes, so it fits open ground where dirt or brush has to move. An excavator digs, loads trucks and pulls root balls out of the ground. Skid loaders work the tight spots, like the strip beside a house. Our excavators start with a compact Bobcat E88 and go up to Kobelco 140, 270 and 350 machines. Beside them we run dozers, wheel loaders and three skid loaders.
On a clearing job, the dozer and an excavator often work the ground together. HomeGuide says clearing with bulldozers and excavators works well for complete site clearance before construction. The same guide says this method removes everything above and below ground but disturbs the soil heavily. HomeAdvisor's excavation cost guide notes that larger, faster rigs can cut job time. That is why we match each machine to the work at the estimate.
Any dozer job that digs needs an 811 call first, and some need a city permit as well. Texas law sets that call at least two business days before digging, not counting weekends or holidays. Inside Fort Worth, land disturbance of one acre or more needs a Grading Permit. The city counts clearing, grubbing, grading, excavations and embankments as land disturbance, along with moving or stockpiling soil. Fort Worth lists that permit at $950 plus $25 per acre, plus $50 to apply and a $16.87 technology fee.
Fort Worth requires an Urban Forestry Permit before land clearing unless the ordinance exempts the lot, and an approved Fill Permit before fill goes down. Grading in Burleson must comply with Ordinance No. B652, and the city requires a Notification of Grading. In unincorporated Johnson County, development and floodplain items go through the county. Texas Water Code 11.086 bars diverting or impounding natural surface water flow if the overflow damages another property. Under Water Code 11.142, a stock tank on your own land holding up to 200 acre-feet for domestic and livestock use needs no state water-right permit.
Much of the ground across Johnson and Tarrant Counties is heavy clay that swells when wet and shrinks when dry. After rain, a blade cannot cut a clean grade in wet clay, so bulldozing waits for the ground to dry. That same clay is what a pond dam needs. The Texas Farm Ponds manual from AgriLife says compactable soil with at least 30 percent clay keeps seepage down. USDA's pond handbook rates clays and silty clays as excellent for the watertight layer a pond bottom needs.
We spread fill one lift at a time, and each layer gets packed before the dozer pushes out the next. TxDOT Item 132, written for highway embankments, caps a lift at 16 inches loose or 12 inches compacted. That is one example of a written spec, and a pad gets its spec from the builder's or engineer's plan. We build to that plan, and a testing lab handles density tests when the plan calls for them. On a pond dam, the same lift-by-lift packing helps keep the water in.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Burleson, Fort Worth & the southwest Metroplex.
(817) 564-4360From the first look at the job to the final walk-through, here is exactly how it goes.
Call (817) 564-4360 or send the form. Tell us the address, what has to come down or what dirt has to move, and your timeline. We set a time to come look.
We price the job standing on the property, not over the phone. The number covers the whole job, including haul-off, and we tell you what has to happen before work can start.
Utility disconnects get ordered, the demolition permit gets handled, and any required survey gets lined up. The start date builds around those dates, and we keep you posted.
The machines do the work, the debris leaves in our own dumpsters, and the ground gets graded before we pull off. What you keep is a clean, usable lot.
Common questions about bulldozer services across Burleson, Fort Worth & the southwest Metroplex. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
Land clearing for building lots and acreage across Burleson and the Fort Worth area. Brush, cedar, mesquite and unwanted trees pushed out, hauled off and the ground graded.
We dig and shape ponds and stock tanks on ranch and acreage property around Burleson. The basin and the dam get compacted so North Texas clay holds the water.
We build house pads, shop and barn pads, mobile home pads and RV pads across the Burleson and Fort Worth area, set to the elevations on your plan.
A demolition company was built and sold here before this one. The company is new; the experience running it is not. About 20 people keep 17-18 house demos moving at once.
A Bobcat E88 fits through a backyard gate. A Kobelco 350 brings down a commercial building. Dozers, wheel loaders and skid steers fill the gaps, so the machine matches the lot.
Three roll-off trucks and about 75 dumpsters belong to the company. Debris leaves on our schedule, and the quote covers the finished state: teardown, loading, hauling, cleanup.
Burleson is home. Fort Worth, Arlington, Crowley, Mansfield and Cleburne are short drives on known ground. The clay moves around here, and the dirt work is planned for it.
A house or building that needs to come down, a slab or pool that needs to come out, dirt that needs to move? Call or send the form and we will look at the job with you and price the whole thing, teardown through cleanup. The estimate is free.
Tell us about your project and we will get right back to you.