Curving streets, sloping blocks and gardens planted in the seventies and eighties that have grown into small forests.
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 Endeavour Hills 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.
Prunings carried up from sloping back 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.
Mature gardens reset for sale or new owners.
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.
Litter along reserve and bushland edges.
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 mature natives after a gusty change.
Endeavour Hills was planned and built from the mid-1970s onward, laid out over hilly ground with winding streets, courts and plenty of parkland between the houses. The gardens from that era leaned heavily on natives — bottlebrush, wattle, grevillea and gums — and forty-odd years later many of them have grown well beyond their original footprint.
Add the slope, and green waste becomes a real chore. Carrying branches up a steep back yard to the bin is hard work, and the bin fills after one session anyway. Ross does the carrying and loading, then takes the lot away.
Wattles and bottlebrush planted in the early days have a limited life, and plenty of Endeavour Hills gardens now have shrubs that are woody, leggy or dead in the middle. Removing them and cutting back what is left generates a large pile quickly.
Once they are out, Ross can load the lot and take it away, leaving the bed ready for replanting. Stumps and roots are only taken if they are free of soil.
A lot of homes in Endeavour Hills are built on a slope, with the back yard either well above or well below the street. Steps, retaining walls and narrow paths are the norm.
None of that stops the job. Ross carries it by hand to the trailer, and if the slope is steep the quote reflects the extra time. A photo from the street and one of the pile makes it easy.
Many Endeavour Hills streets back onto parks and bushland reserves. Those homes get more leaf litter, fallen sticks and self-seeded natives coming over the back fence than the average block.
For houses on those edges, a spring tidy-up of the litter and dry growth closest to the house is worth doing. Ross takes it away rather than leaving it in a pile along the fence.
Late autumn is when the deciduous trees drop and gardens get their big cut-back before winter. Spring brings a burst of growth and pre-summer tidy-ups for homes on the reserve edges. Get in early for either.
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.
