Ranch & Land Services in Comal County

The Ground Here

The Balcones Escarpment cuts across Comal County, and which side of it your property sits on changes a job more than almost anything else about it.

North and west of that line - Canyon Lake, Spring Branch, Fischer, Smithson Valley - you are on the Edwards Plateau. Thin soil over solid limestone, with Ashe juniper taking root anywhere it can. Two things follow from that. Clearing here means cedar, and cedar comes straight back if the job is done badly. And any road, pad, trench or entrance hits rock almost immediately.

That second point is where most projects stall. Blasting means permits and neighbours who do not mind the noise. Hauling in base material means truck after truck up a drive that may not exist yet.

Milling solves it a third way. We grind the rock where it lies and use it as the base, so the obstacle becomes the material. It is the capability most contractors working this county simply do not have, and it is the reason we are usually called after somebody else has walked away.

What that means for the work

• Cedar clearing that accounts for regrowth, not just the first pass
• Roads and building pads cut into rock without blasting
• Base material produced on site instead of trucked in
• Entrances built to sit properly on sloping, rocky ground
• Utility and water-line trenching through limestone

Where we work in Comal County

New Braunfels, Canyon Lake, Bulverde, Spring Branch, Garden Ridge, Fischer, Sattler, Startzville, Smithson Valley, Bracken, Hunter and Solms.

If your property is in Comal County and you are not sure which of these applies to it, that is exactly what a site visit is for. We will walk it with you and tell you what the ground is actually going to allow.