Young gardens on compact estate lots, where the side path is narrow and the bin fills after one hedge trim.
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 Clyde North 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.
Trimmings from young estate hedges and screens.
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.
Weedy lots and rentals before handover.
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.
Grassy lots on the edge of open land.
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.
Storm damage to young street and yard trees.
Clyde North is one of the newest parts of Casey. Much of it was paddocks not long ago, and today it is estates of new homes on compact lots, with young street trees, fresh landscaping and a lot of houses still settling in their first gardens.
The green waste here is different to the older suburbs. There are no huge trees dropping limbs — yet. Instead there's hedge and screen trimmings, weeds on unplanted ground, offcuts from landscaping and the growth that happens when a back yard is left for a season. Ross clears it and takes it away.
Screening plants like lillypilly and pittosporum go in along the fences and grow fast. After two or three years they need a proper cut, and a full boundary of them produces a big pile.
Ornamental grasses, feature shrubs and lawn edges also add up. Whether you do the trimming yourself or have a gardener in, Ross will take the result.
Estate lots in Clyde North are compact, and most have a garage across the front with a narrow path down one side. There is rarely room to back a trailer in, so Ross loads by hand from the street.
That works fine. The only thing to consider is carrying time — a pile already at the front is quickest, and a pile at the back is still doable, just priced a little differently.
Many Clyde North homes are rentals. Before a new tenant moves in or an owner sells, the garden often needs a tidy-up: weeds cleared, hedges cut and the pile of green waste that has built up down the side taken away.
Ross can deal with the property manager if you are not local. Give him the access details and the handover date.
Screening plants in Clyde North put on their biggest growth in spring and early summer. Trim them in late spring, book the pickup, and you'll avoid the rush when everyone wants their yard sorted before the holidays.
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.
