Mostly flat blocks, driveways down the side and backyards that have got away from their owners. Airport West green waste is usually quick to load and quick to get rid of.
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 Airport West 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.
One-off pickups straight off the driveway.
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.
Green waste from neglected backyards 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.
Summer grass and dead growth cleared 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.
Wind-blown branches picked up and loaded.
Airport West is a practical suburb. Most of it was built from the 1950s onward, with single-storey brick and weatherboard houses on flat blocks, many with a driveway down one side. It is close to the freeway and the airport, and the gardens tend to be low-key rather than showpieces.
Low-key gardens still get away from people. Couch grass creeps into the beds, shrubs push up against the house, and the corner of the backyard becomes a pile of prunings that has been sitting there for a year. The upside of flat blocks with side driveways is that clearing it is usually straightforward.
A lot of work in Airport West starts with a backyard that has simply been left. Long grass, weeds, overgrown shrubs and a heap of old prunings behind the shed. It happens when owners are busy, unwell or away, and in rentals where nobody has been looking after the outside.
Once it has been cut back, Ross can load the lot and remove it in one visit, old pruning piles included.
With a driveway running down the side, the trailer can often be reversed right up to the backyard. Loading is quicker and the job takes less time than it would on a tight inner-suburban block.
That makes Airport West a good suburb for a straightforward green waste pickup: put everything in one pile near the drive and Ross can load it and be gone quickly.
Over late spring the grass and weeds in an untended Airport West yard shoot up, then dry off and turn brown over summer. It looks untidy, harbours vermin and can become a fire risk against sheds and fences.
Cutting it back in late spring and having the waste removed keeps the yard manageable through the hot months.
Grass and weeds in Airport West put on most of their growth in October and November. A clean-up before the start of summer catches them while they are still green and easy to cut, rather than dealing with a yard full of dry, matted growth in January.
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.
