Old-town gardens with big exotic trees, hilly streets and newer estates with hedges that never stop growing — Ross clears the pile and takes it away.
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 Berwick 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.
Hedge and pruning piles from Berwick yards.
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.
Old-town gardens and estate homes before sale.
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.
Larger blocks on the hilly eastern side.
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.
Oak, elm and gum limbs after a windy night.
Berwick is really two suburbs in one. Around the old township there are established houses on generous blocks, with mature oaks, elms, liquidambars and gums that were planted generations ago. Further out it's newer estates with hedged front yards, feature trees and neat garden beds that need cutting back every season.
Both halves make more garden waste than a fortnightly green bin can deal with. The old gardens drop leaves and limbs in bulk. The newer ones fill up with hedge trimmings, lillypilly cuttings and the odd overgrown corner nobody wants to tackle. Ross handles the green waste removal Berwick people keep putting off — he loads the trailer by hand, sweeps up and takes it for disposal.
The streets around the older part of Berwick have some of the most established trees in Casey. Deciduous trees look great in April and then drop the lot in May. Raking them into a heap is the easy part; getting rid of a trailer-load of wet leaves is harder.
Those same trees shed branches through winter and after a gusty change. A few sticks go in the bin. A limb the size of a small tree does not. Ross loads it straight onto the trailer and hauls it away.
Across the newer parts of Berwick a lot of homes rely on lillypilly, viburnum and photinia hedges for privacy. They grow fast, and a proper trim along a boundary fence produces far more than one bin can hold.
If you trim your own hedges, leave the cuttings in one heap on the lawn or in the driveway and Ross will clear it. Regular green waste collections a few times a year suit a lot of estate homes — book each one when the hedges have had their cut.
Some of Berwick climbs toward Harkaway and backs onto larger rural-style blocks. Properties on that side carry more grass, more trees and more dry litter by summer, and they sit close enough to open country that fire preparation matters.
The CFA declares a Fire Danger Period for Casey most years, and the council can issue fire prevention notices to properties that need tidying. Clearing dead growth, dry prunings and bark back from the house in spring is the sensible way to get ahead of it. Ross can take the whole lot on one visit.
Berwick has two busy stretches. Late autumn, when the old deciduous trees drop everything at once, and late spring, when hedges put on their growth and the larger blocks want clearing before summer. Book a few weeks ahead of either and the job gets done when you want it.
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.
