Victorian cottages, narrow side paths and small gardens packed with plants. Elsternwick green waste usually has to be carried out, and Ross does exactly that.
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 Elsternwick 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.
Courtyard and cottage garden 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.
Small gardens cleared through tight access.
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 clear-out of dry beds and leaf build-up.
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 over fences and on roofs.
Elsternwick is one of the older suburbs in this part of Melbourne, with Victorian and Edwardian houses packed close together around Glen Huntly Road and the Sandringham line. Blocks are narrower than further south, and many houses have only a side path — or no side access at all — between the front and back gardens.
The gardens are small but often dense: climbing roses, ornamental trees, hedges along the front fence and courtyards full of pots and shrubs. When a garden like that is cut back, the waste often has to come out through the house or down a narrow path. Ross does green waste removal in Elsternwick with that in mind.
A lot of Elsternwick homes are semi-detached or terrace-style with no way into the back yard except through the house. Green waste has to be bagged or carried through carefully.
Ross can use drop sheets and carry offcuts through with care. He will ask about the route when you book so he can plan the job and price it properly.
Period gardens in Elsternwick often have roses, wisteria, ornamental pears and hedges packed into a small space. Pruning them all at once produces far more waste than the size of the garden suggests.
Ross loads it by hand and can clear the lot in one visit, including leaves and weeds that have been raked out of beds.
Elsternwick has plenty of rented houses and apartment blocks with small shared gardens. When a property changes hands or tenants, the garden often needs a clean-up before it can be relet.
Ross works with property managers and body corporates for one-off clean-ups and regular pickups.
Roses, wisteria and deciduous trees in Elsternwick are pruned in winter. Booking a pickup after the prune clears the waste before spring, when the garden grows fast and the offcuts start piling up again.
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.
