West Texas mesquitegrubbing.
Mesquite and cedar out at the root — not shredded, not sprayed. Cat 323s and 330s we own, so we hold a schedule. Every acre tracked, mapped, and handed to you when we're done.
Most brush jobs, you're taking somebody's word for it
A contractor tells you he grubbed 340 acres. Maybe he did. You'd have to walk every foot of it to know, and nobody walks it, so everybody just pays the invoice and hopes.
That's not how we work.
Every machine we run carries Starlink and GPS. Every acre we touch is tracked and mapped as it happens. When the job is done you get satellite tracks of exactly what was grubbed — not an estimate, not a windshield count, the actual ground. And you can pull it up any time, during the job or two years after it.
Before we start, we build the plan on the property and load it into the machines. Sculpting zones drawn on your ground, exported as shapefiles, straight onto the iPads in the cabs. The operator isn't eyeballing where to stop — he's running a plan you signed off on.
That matters most on habitat work, because habitat is a pattern, not a percentage. "Leave some cover" means nothing to a man in a cab at 4 p.m. A shapefile means exactly this motte, exactly this draw, exactly this edge. The plan is the habitat, and the tracks prove it got run.
You know what you bought. We know what we ran. Nobody has to take anybody's word.
If you like your quail, you don't spray
Spraying gets talked about as the cheap version of grubbing. For a cow-calf operation it might be. For a place you hunt, it's not the same job at all — and the difference isn't the mesquite, it's everything growing underneath it.
The mesquite products in wide use out here — Sendero and Invora — are broadleaf-selective. That's the design, not a side effect. They leave grass standing and take out broadleaf plants.
Forbs are broadleaf plants. Western ragweed, croton, partridge pea, bundleflower, the native legumes. A cattleman sees weeds. A bird man sees the seed quail eat, the insects the chicks eat, and the cover a covey travels under.
So the sprayed pasture greens up, the grass looks better than it has in years, the mesquite is dead and standing, and the birds leave. People blame the drought or the hawks. You didn't lose the quail to the mesquite. You lost the food.
Grubbing takes the mesquite out mechanically and leaves everything else alone. Disturbed ground is where forbs come back hardest — a grubbed pasture the next spring is usually thicker in ragweed and native legumes than it was before we touched it.
If you run cattle and nothing else, spray it. If you like your quail, you grub it.
We came to this from the habitat side
Texas Grubbing grew out of Quail Safe — the company that designed and patented the Quail Safe Feeder and works on wild bobwhite recovery across the Rolling Plains. We spent years studying what makes a piece of ground hold birds before we ever ran a machine on somebody else's place.
That is not a marketing line, it is the reason we clear the way we do.
A crew clearing for pasture takes everything, because everything is faster to bid and faster to run. We grub in patterns. We take the mesquite that is stealing your water and your grass, and we leave the mottes, the draws and the edge that quail, deer and turkey actually live in. You get the carrying capacity and you keep the wildlife.
If you want it scraped clean we'll do it, and we'll tell you first what it costs you.
What we do
- Mesquite and cedar grubbing— root-ball removal, the core of what we do
- Stock tanks, ponds and dams— sited off drainage and imagery, built to hold
- Ranch roads and fence lines— access that survives a wet spring
- Rangeland restoration— native seeding behind the clearing
- Prescribed burning— run as part of a cycle, not a one-off
- Habitat evaluation— imagery and boots on the ground before anything moves
- Cost-share guidance— finding conservation funding that offsets the work
Equipment
- Cat 323 and Cat 330 excavators with grubbing attachments
- Cat dozers and skid steers for stacking and cleanup
- 22-yard Humdinger scrapers for dirt work and reclamation
Owned, not rented.
That's why we can hold a schedule when everybody else is waiting on a rental yard.
Where we work
Based in Jayton and Lubbock. We run Kent, Stonewall, Dickens, King, Garza, Fisher, Scurry, Shackelford, Throckmorton and Haskell counties, west to Orla and the Permian Basin, and east into the Big Country around Albany and Abilene.
Anywhere in the Rolling Plains, call us. If we can't get to your place we'll say so instead of stringing you along.
Get a number
Call 833-667-3262 or email info@texasgrubbing.com.
Tell us the county, the acreage and how thick it is. We'll walk it or work off imagery and give you a real number instead of a range.