Rock Milling
We grind loose surface rock and boulders into 3/4 minus caliche right where they lie. The ground can then become a lawn, a pasture, a pad or a road.
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Land clearing in Smithville often starts on old ground. The Census Bureau estimates that about 35 percent of the town's homes were built in 1939 or earlier. Lots that old can hold a leaning shed, a fence row lost in vines or a back corner gone to small trees. Outside town, farm and pasture land runs along the Colorado River, where field edges can grow up in brush.
Intex Rock and Cedar Solutions is based in Kyle, and Smithville is part of our service area. Our land clearing takes brush and small trees off lots and pastures in and around town. You choose the trees that stay, and we work around them. Call or text (737) 317-7625, and we will look at the land and put a free quote in writing.
Tell us about the land, the work it needs and where it is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.
Smithville sits just off SH 71, southeast of Bastrop in southeastern Bastrop County. In 1894, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad put its central shops here. The town's population quickly doubled, and Smithville incorporated in March 1895. The James H. Long Railroad Museum on Main Street keeps exhibits from that railroad history.
Many homes from those early years still stand. By Census Bureau estimates, Smithville has 2,034 homes, and 716 of them were built in 1939 or earlier. The median home was built in 1967. About three in four are detached single-family houses. The same estimates count 4,216 people in town.
On an older lot, the job can be brush, small trees and an old fence row. Fence line clearing opens up a fence row lost in vines, so a fence builder can get to it. The skid steer mulcher fits the tight spots between the house, the fence and the trees you keep. Before any building in town comes down, ask City Hall what the city requires.
Smithville sits mostly south of the Colorado River. A soil series that shares the town's name lies on high bottomlands and low terraces along the river. The federal soil survey calls Smithville soils very deep and well drained. They formed in alluvium, the material a river lays down over time.
The survey's sample soil is a Smithville fine sandy loam, taken from cropland beside SH 71 and SH 95, just southeast of FM 153. The survey says these soils are mostly farmed for corn, grain sorghum and cotton. Short floods from stream overflow can come once in 20 to 50 years, unless levees or dams protect the land.
Deep river ground like this is a different job from rocky Hill Country land, where rock milling grinds loose surface rock into caliche base. Here, the work is mostly what grows on the land and what was built on it. Forestry mulching grinds yaupon and brush where they stand and leaves the mulch on the ground. Land grading can then smooth the cleared ground for a lawn or a pasture.
Inside the city limits, the city says to contact City Hall for permits. City Hall is on Main Street. Bastrop County notes that Smithville, like Bastrop and Elgin, has zoning inside its city limits. Ask City Hall what your lot needs before a building comes down or a pad goes in.
Outside the city limits, the county has no general zoning. Bastrop County Development Services, on Jackson Street in Bastrop, handles development permits there. The county says only external development requires a permit. Development partly or wholly in the mapped 100-year floodplain takes a Class B permit from the county.
Bastrop County also holds a federal permit for Houston toad habitat. It covers about 124,000 acres of known and potential habitat in the county. Landowners can join the county's plan for land development, farm or forestry work. If your land is wooded, ask the county about your tract before clearing starts, and we point you to the right office first.
Buescher State Park carries a Smithville address. Park Road 1C, a hilly park road, runs from it to Bastrop State Park through recovering and forested parts of the Lost Pines. In Buescher, loblolly pines tower over the Pine Gulch Trail. Oaks and cedars line the Winding Woodlands Trail, and average rainfall at the park is 36.5 inches.
Wooded tracts around town can hold the same mix of pine, oak and cedar. You choose which trees stay. The 400 horsepower wheeled mulcher grinds brush and small trees on open acreage, and the skid steer mulcher works close to the trees you keep. Where cedar has crowded in under the oaks, our cedar clearing takes it out.
The city runs Vernon L. Richards Riverbend Park on the banks of the Colorado River, on the outskirts of town. SH 71, SH 95, Loop 230, FM 153, FM 2571 and FM 2104 all run through Smithville. Along those roads, site work builds driveways and house pads once the land is cleared. For the Lost Pines acreage around Bastrop itself, see land clearing in Bastrop.
Communities and areas we serve around Smithville: Main Street, James H. Long Railroad Park, Vernon L. Richards Riverbend Park, Buescher State Park, Park Road 1C, Lake Thunderbird, Indian Lake, Colorado River, SH 71, SH 95, Loop 230, FM 153.
Smithville ZIP codes served: 78957.
Smithville is part of our service area. We look at the job first, then put a free estimate in writing.
(737) 317-7625 We grind loose surface rock and boulders into 3/4 minus caliche right where they lie. The ground can then become a lawn, a pasture, a pad or a road.
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We grind brush and small trees into mulch right where they stand. The mulch stays on the ground as a cover for the soil.
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We take cedar off pastures, lots, fence lines and homesites, mulched in place or pushed into burn piles. The oaks and the trees you pick stay standing.
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We cut ranch roads and driveways and build house pads and building pads. Culverts go in where the water crosses, and the property's own rock often becomes the road base.
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We grade and level yards, lots, pastures and driveways with the dirt and rock already on the property. The ground gets sloped so rain runs toward the ditch or the draw.
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We take down old farm and ranch houses, sheds, barns and outbuildings. The hydraulic hammer breaks up concrete slabs, driveways, old foundations and piers.
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We clear cedar, brush and rock off a strip along your fence line. Your fence builder starts on a clean, level path.
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I had Intex Rock & Cedar Solutions come out and rock mill about 2 acres of my field, and they did an outstanding job. The difference before and after was incredible. They showed up when they said they would, worked hard, and treated my property like it was their own.
Outstanding job by Trey with Intex Rock & Cedar Solutions! My wife and I were in need of a spot cleared for our future home and Trey exceeded our expectations. He also helped us with removing some old existing piers and leaving the ground nice and level. Highly recommend!
We recently had them out for a major project involving cedar clearing and rock crushing, and the results are incredible. They didn't just clear the land; they transformed the terrain. Their rock milling and crushing equipment turned rough, unusable limestone into a smooth, walkable surface.
Trey and his guys came out with this huge mulcher and made quick work of clearing my 30 acres. They worked long hours, made sure I was happy with everything before leaving, fair pricing, and very easy to work with. Highly recommend!
Trey and Intex did a great job on clearing my property. Up front and honest on pricing. Showed up on time when they said they would. Went above and beyond on the work I asked them to do. Great company.
I had my drive way get washed out during a bad storm and we couldn't get off the property without bottoming out. Trey came out and fixed our road and diverted future run off in the problem area to the ditch and culvert. While he was out he also took the time to clear branches and sticks from the side of the road to open up our drive that was getting over grown.
A few of the questions we hear most around Smithville. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Tell us about your land and the town it is near, and we will set a time to see it. Call or text (737) 317-7625 or use the form for a free estimate.
Tell us about the land, the work it needs and where it is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.