Established Bayswater gardens full of fruit trees, roses and hedges make plenty of prunings. Ross collects them and takes them for recycling.
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 Bayswater 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.
Fruit tree, rose and hedge prunings.
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.
Older yards and rentals given a proper clear-out.
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.
Dead growth and dry cuttings moved on.
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.
Branches snapped by wind picked up and taken.
Bayswater is one of the older parts of Knox. The station on the Belgrave line and the shops along Mountain Highway form the centre, there is a big industrial area on one side, and the residential streets are mostly post-war and 1960s–70s homes on solid suburban blocks, with the Dandenongs rising up to the east.
The gardens here have had time to mature. Plenty of Bayswater yards have fruit trees planted by the original owners, rose beds, hedges along the front and a big tree or two out the back. Each of those needs a good prune at least once a year, and each prune leaves a pile.
Fruit trees and roses are pruned in winter, and a Bayswater garden with a couple of plums, an apple and a row of roses can produce a surprising pile of cuttings in an afternoon. Add a hedge or two and the green bin is overwhelmed.
That winter prune is a good time for a green waste pickup. Ross can come after you've finished, gather everything off the lawn and beds, and take it away.
Bayswater has a good number of rentals, and gardens tend to go downhill between tenants. By the time the property manager notices, there can be months of overgrowth and garden waste to deal with.
Ross clears the green waste in a single visit and can work directly with the agent on access. The yard is left swept and presentable for the next tenant or the next inspection.
Most Bayswater homes have a driveway beside the house, which makes trailer access easy. Where the green waste is out the back, Ross carries it through the side gate and loads by hand.
If parking is tight on your street, or the pile is somewhere awkward, mention it and send a photo. It makes the quote more accurate and the visit quicker.
June to August is pruning season for Bayswater's fruit trees and roses. Book a pickup for the week after you finish so the cuttings aren't left lying on the lawn through the wet months.
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.
