Bigger houses, bigger gardens and blocks that fall away toward the Maribyrnong. Ross clears the green waste in Aberfeldie and carries it back up to the trailer.
Not a franchisee or a truck driver from a booking system. The bloke who quotes it is the bloke who loads it.
No bags to fill, no skip to load. Leave it in a pile and he loads it, sweeps up and takes it away.
Not a bin size. A heap beside the driveway and one at the bottom of a steep yard are different jobs and get different prices.
Standing tree, asbestos, or more rubbish than garden — he tells you before he starts, not after.
A pruning pile hauled away and a few bags of leaf litter collected is the usual combination on a Aberfeldie block.
Piles of prunings, branches, hedge trimmings, leaves and weeds that won't fit in the green bin. Ross backs the trailer in, loads it himself and takes it away to be recycled — you don't lift a thing.
Large loads from established, well-kept gardens.
Doing a big garden clean-up — overgrown beds, a back corner nobody has touched in years, a rental between tenants or a property being tidied for sale? Pile it all up and Ross collects the lot in one visit.
Terraced and sloping back yards cleared.
Fallen limbs, shed bark, leaf litter and dry prunings gathered up from around the house — the fine fuel that matters most in a grassfire or ember attack. Collected and taken away before the Fire Danger Period starts.
Dry growth from the river side hauled away.
A gum has dropped a limb across the driveway, or a windy night has left the yard covered. Ross collects what's come down and hauls it away. Standing trees and hung-up limbs are an arborist's job — once they've dropped it, Ross can take it away.
Big limbs from mature trees loaded and removed.
Aberfeldie is a small suburb on the east side of the Maribyrnong River, and a lot of it slopes down toward the water. It has a mix of solid older homes and large newer ones, many of them on generous blocks with established gardens that have been well planted and well kept.
Big, mature gardens generate big loads. A proper autumn clean-up on an Aberfeldie block, with the hedges trimmed, the trees pruned and the beds cleared, can fill a trailer on its own. Bulk green waste like that is exactly what the green bin is not built for.
Many of the blocks closer to the river drop away from the street, so the back garden sits well below the road. Some are terraced with retaining walls and steps, and a few have steep paths down the side of the house.
Everything has to come back up the hill to the trailer. Ross does that by hand, which is slower than a flat block but gets the job done without damaging lawns or garden beds. Mention the slope and the number of steps when you enquire.
Aberfeldie gardens often have established trees that are decades old, plus long hedges along the front and side boundaries. Pruning them, or even just cleaning up after a big leaf drop, produces a lot of material.
Ross takes prunings, hedge cuttings and branches that have already been cut down. He does not do any pruning or tree work himself, so if you need a big tree lopped, get an arborist in first and he can take the waste away afterwards.
Properties on the river side of Aberfeldie can have long grass and weeds on the lower parts of the block. Over summer that growth dries off, and cutting it back and clearing it away makes the garden tidier and safer.
Once the grass has been cut, Ross can take the clippings away with the rest of the load, so the lower part of the block is clear for summer.
Spring in Aberfeldie brings fast growth and the occasional strong wind. Getting hedges trimmed and dead wood cleared away before then means less mess after the first big blow, and any fallen branches can be picked up quickly instead of joining a backlog.
Suburb, roughly how much there is, and what the access is like. A photo saves a lot of back and forth.
Ross comes back with a number. On big or awkward jobs he has a look first rather than guessing.
Loaded by hand, driveway swept, and off for proper green waste disposal.
Ross runs this on his own. He quotes the job, he turns up, he loads the trailer and he takes it away — the same bloke every visit. There is no office in between, no skip company, and no franchise cut coming out of what you pay.
It also means he will tell you when something isn't his job — a standing tree that needs an arborist, or a pile that is more rubbish than garden — rather than taking the money and leaving you with half a problem.
The suburb, roughly how much there is, and how easy it is to get a trailer to it is enough to work with. A photo of the pile gets you a price fastest.
Prefer to talk? Call or text Ross on 0416 030 925. Monday to Saturday, daylight hours — weather permitting.
Get a price on your pile. Takes a minute — Ross reads them himself.
Thanks — that's gone through to Ross. Spring is his busiest time, so if it's close to fire season he may take a day or two.
