From estate homes near the shopping centre to larger blocks on the green wedge edge, Chirnside Park gardens need regular clearing. Ross takes the green waste 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 Chirnside Park 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.
Estate garden prunings and hedge offcuts.
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.
Larger blocks and back paddocks tidied.
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 cleared on the rural fringe.
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.
Limbs from big old trees cleared away.
Chirnside Park is mostly residential estates built from the 1970s into the 2000s, spread over rolling land either side of Maroondah Highway around the shopping centre. On the northern and eastern edges, the houses give way to bigger lots and open rural land running toward the Yarra Valley.
The estates are full of family gardens that have matured over the years — hedges, natives, lawns and a few big trees. The larger blocks on the fringe add paddock-style grass and older trees to the mix. Between them there is a lot of garden waste to get rid of, much of it too bulky for the council bin.
Chirnside Park's older estates were landscaped by the first owners, often with natives and fast-growing screening plants. After a few decades they have filled every available space, and pruning them back produces a lot of woody material.
Ross can take care of it in one visit: loaded by hand and taken to a facility where it becomes mulch. Estate streets usually have good trailer access, so these jobs tend to be straightforward.
On the edges of Chirnside Park the blocks get larger and more open. There's more grass, bigger trees, and often an area out the back that gets used for dumping prunings until it becomes its own project.
Ross can clear that backlog in one go. For properties close to open country, getting dry growth and old piles cleared before summer is sensible fire preparation as well as a tidy-up.
Houses change hands regularly in Chirnside Park, and a garden clean-up is common at both ends. Sellers want the yard looking its best for photos. Buyers often want to clear out what the previous owners left before they start on their own plans.
Either way, a single bulk green waste pickup gets rid of the backlog. Let Ross know the settlement or open-for-inspection date and he'll work to it.
Grass on the larger Chirnside Park blocks dries off quickly once summer arrives. Book the green waste removal for October or November so the property is cleared before the hot, dry weather — and before everyone on the fringe is chasing the same dates.
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.
