Heavy Equipment

CAT Excavator

CAT 314D LCR Excavator

The CAT 314D LCR is our primary excavation and material handling machine, equipped with a hydraulic thumb that gives the operator a full grip on logs, stumps, rocks and debris for precise placement and sorting. A quick coupler system allows rapid attachment changes on the job site — switching from the root grapple to a ditching bucket or GP bucket in minutes without leaving the cab, keeping production moving without downtime.

We run three general purpose bucket sizes to match the task: a wide bucket for moving large volumes of loose material, a standard GP for general digging and a narrow 5-foot ditching bucket for precise trenching, pond cutting and slope work. The brush debris rake attachment allows us to windrow cleared material and separate soil from brush efficiently during land clearing operations.

The LCR designation refers to the machine's low-clearance, reduced-radius tail swing — a meaningful advantage when working close to fence lines, structures and trees the owner wants to keep. The 314D's reach and digging depth make it the go-to machine for pond construction, stump excavation, large-tree removal with the grapple and any earthwork requiring reach beyond what a track loader can accomplish.

CAT Dozer

CAT D4K2 Dozer

The CAT D4K2 is a compact mid-size dozer that delivers serious pushing power while remaining maneuverable enough for residential and rural site work where a larger machine would be too destructive to the surrounding landscape. It's the primary grading tool in our fleet, used for rough grading, building pad preparation, road building, pond dam construction and any application that requires moving substantial earth across a site to establish grade.

The D4K2's blade features adjustable pitch control, allowing our operator to dial in blade angle for different material conditions — a steep pitch to cut hard clay, a shallower pitch to carry and spread loose fill. This flexibility significantly improves production efficiency compared to a fixed-pitch blade, particularly in the variety of soil conditions found across Montgomery, Grimes, Walker and surrounding counties.

The dozer excels at trail and road building through wooded property — pushing material to establish a roadbed while simultaneously windowing brush to the sides — and at finish grading large pad areas where the blade's width and control produce a consistent, flat result. For property owners developing acreage for agricultural or recreational use, the D4K2 dozer handles the bulk of the earthwork that makes a raw piece of land genuinely usable.

CAT Track Loader

CAT 299D2 Compact Track Loader

The CAT 299D2 is the largest compact track loader in the CAT lineup and the workhorse of our attachment-based land clearing work. Its high-flow hydraulic system delivers the hydraulic horsepower required to run high-demand attachments at full performance — including the Dymax tree shear, Hydro-Ax forestry mulcher, brush cutter and power box rake — without sacrificing machine speed or pushing capability.

The 299D2 accepts all 10 attachments in our inventory and can switch between them in under five minutes with its universal quick-attach system. This versatility means a single machine can move through a land clearing project performing tree shearing, brush mulching, debris raking and finish grading in sequence, reducing the number of machine moves and mobilization costs associated with using multiple dedicated machines.

Its rubber track system minimizes ground disturbance on sensitive sites, making it suitable for selective clearing work where preserving the soil structure and root zones around kept trees is a priority. The 299D2 is the machine at the center of nearly every job we run, from a half-acre residential lot in The Woodlands to a 50-acre tract in Walker County.

CAT Track Loader

CAT 275 Compact Track Loader

The CAT 275 represents the next generation of CAT's compact track loader platform, featuring an upgraded high-flow hydraulic system that delivers even higher hydraulic pressure and flow than previous generation CTLs of its class. This matters on heavy-duty attachments like the forestry mulcher and tree shear, where sustained hydraulic performance throughout long operating cycles directly translates to production rate and attachment longevity.

The 275's elevated hydraulic capacity means it can run the heaviest attachments in our lineup at full rated output all day without heat-related performance degradation — an important factor during summer months in Texas when ambient temperatures push hydraulic systems hard. Where an older CTL might derate attachment performance after extended high-load use, the 275 maintains consistent output from first hour to last.

Combined with the 299D2, having two high-performance CTLs in the fleet gives us the flexibility to run two simultaneous attachment-based operations on large projects — for example, running the tree shear on one machine while the other runs the mulcher — effectively doubling production on tract-size clearing jobs and keeping larger projects on timeline without adding a third machine mobilization.

Specialty Attachments

Hydro-Ax Forestry Mulcher

The Hydro-Ax forestry mulcher is one of the most efficient land clearing tools available, grinding trees, brush and understory vegetation into fine wood mulch directly in place — eliminating the need to fell, pile, haul and burn cleared material. The mulcher's carbide-tipped cutting drum chews through trees up to 8-10 inches in diameter and dense brush at production rates that manual crews cannot approach, leaving a uniform layer of mulch that integrates back into the soil over time.

This no-pile, no-burn method is particularly valuable on properties where burning is prohibited by county burn bans or HOA rules, on sites where the mulch layer provides erosion control benefit, and on large tracts where hauling debris would add significant cost and time to the project.

The mulcher is mounted to the CAT 299D2 or 275 CTL and benefits from the machine's high-flow hydraulic system to run the drum at full rated speed. It's the first choice for clearing thick cedar, pine and hardwood understory where the goal is rapid site preparation without debris management.

Dymax 14" Tree Shear

The Dymax 14-inch tree shear is our precision selective clearing tool, designed to cut trees at ground level with surgical accuracy in settings where the forestry mulcher's wider work path would disturb too much ground or where clean stumps are preferable to mulched material. The shear's dual hydraulic blades close around the tree trunk and cut through in a single smooth cycle, leaving a clean stump flush with the grade.

A full 90-degree head rotation allows the operator to lay felled trees precisely in any direction — stacking them parallel for later chipping, clearing them away from structures or steering them into a pile for burning. This directional control is what makes the Dymax shear the right tool for selective thinning jobs where control of fall direction is as important as the cut itself.

The 14-inch jaw capacity handles the vast majority of trees found on residential and rural properties in the Houston area, including mature hardwoods and large pine that would require a chainsaw and rigging to fell safely by hand.

AX19 Vermeer 175HP Chipper

The Vermeer AX19 is a production-grade whole-tree chipper that processes trees up to 20 inches in diameter — including trunk, primary limbs and secondary branches — in a single continuous feed. At 175 horsepower, the AX19 can keep up with the output of the Dymax tree shear on busy clearing days, preventing material from backing up and stalling site production while the shear operator waits for chip capacity.

The chipper reduces cleared trees to a manageable volume of wood chips that can be spread as a mulch cover across disturbed areas, used to surface walking trails and driveways, or piled for convenient removal in a fraction of the truckloads that whole-log removal would require. This volume reduction is particularly valuable on properties where debris removal access is limited or where disposal costs are a budget concern.

The AX19 is towed to job sites behind our dually diesel truck and positioned at the edge of the clearing work area, where the track loader feeds trees directly into the infeed chute. On post-storm cleanup jobs involving large volumes of downed timber, the AX19 is invaluable for rapid debris reduction and site restoration.

Kubota KX 057-4 Mini Excavator

The Kubota KX 057-4 is a 57-horsepower mini excavator that fills the critical gap between hand-digging and full-size excavator work — particularly valuable for residential and tight-access jobs where the CAT 314D would cause unacceptable ground damage or simply cannot fit through gates, side yards and narrow corridors.

We run three bucket widths on the Kubota: a 1-foot narrow bucket for precision utility trenching in tight spaces, a 2-foot standard bucket for general excavation and drainage work, and a 3-foot wide bucket for more productive digging where space allows. The machine's zero-tail-swing design and compact footprint let it operate close to fences, walls and structures without risking damage to adjacent property.

The KX 057-4 handles the full range of tasks we assign mini excavators: utility trenching for water lines, electrical conduit and septic laterals; drainage trenching in landscaped areas; small stump removal; and selective grading in areas too tight for the larger CTLs. It's a machine we load on nearly every residential job.

Supporting Equipment

Behind the machines that do the clearing and grading work is the support equipment that gets everything to the job site and handles the finishing details that make a project truly complete. Our heavy-duty dually diesel truck paired with a gooseneck lowboy trailer handles equipment transport across our entire service area — from Montgomery County to Walker, Grimes, San Jacinto and North Harris Counties. The trailer's capacity accommodates our largest machines, and the combination allows us to mobilize the full fleet to a job site in a single staged haul sequence rather than requiring multiple transport contractors. This control over our own mobilization means we're not at the mercy of third-party schedules when a customer's timeline is tight or a job needs to start on short notice.

The power box rake is a precision finishing attachment that transforms the surface quality achievable with a track loader after clearing and rough grading. Mounted to the CAT 299D2, the box rake uses a series of hardened tines followed by a level box to simultaneously rake debris — rocks, root fragments, wire, small stumps — to the surface and level the grade below. The result is a finish surface ready for seeding, sod installation, concrete formwork or paving that would otherwise require hours of manual labor to achieve. We use the power box rake on every site prep project where a quality finish grade is part of the scope, as well as on driveway and road projects where a clean gravel surface is the final product.

The root grapple attachment, run on the CAT 314D excavator, is essential for stump removal, debris handling and material sorting during clearing operations. The grapple's tined jaw penetrates root masses and grips stumps without the slippage that a smooth bucket would experience, allowing clean extraction of root systems from the ground and efficient movement of large logs and debris piles. During selective clearing work, the grapple gives our excavator operator the ability to carefully extract a stump close to a standing tree without disturbing the neighboring root zone — a level of precision impossible with a dozer or track loader. Together, these supporting pieces of equipment close the gap between the bulk clearing and grading work and the final clean, finished site our customers expect at the end of every project.

Our Land Clearing Equipment Fleet