Older homes near the station, newer estates further north. Ross clears the green waste from both — loaded by hand and taken 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 Epping 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.
Older blocks and newer estate gardens alike.
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.
Rental and investment property yards.
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.
Cut grass and dry growth on the north 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.
Wind-damaged limbs loaded and cleared.
Epping has two quite different halves. The older part, around the station and the original township area, has postwar and 1970s homes on larger blocks with established gardens. Further north, toward Epping North, it is newer estate housing on smaller lots, with the Northern Hospital and the Melbourne Market nearby.
Both halves produce green waste, just in different ways. The older blocks have mature trees, big hedges and deep back yards. The newer ones have young gardens that grow fast, plus the long grass and weeds that blow in from nearby open land. Ross provides green waste collection for both, loading it by hand and taking it away.
Around the station and the older streets, many homes have been there forty years or more. Gardens have mature trees, big shrubs and back yards with sheds, fruit trees and vegie patches.
When those get cut back, the load is usually more than a few bins — and older owners often can’t manage the lifting themselves. Ross does the lifting and loads it for them.
Newer Epping homes often have compact gardens, but they are rarely empty. Screening plants along the fence grow quickly, lawns go to seed, and weeds come through the edges.
A lot of these are rentals or investment properties. Owners and property managers can book a garden clean-up between tenants, with access arranged directly.
Epping’s northern edge still has open grassland and paddocks nearby. Seeds blow in, and a yard left alone through spring can be knee-deep in grass and thistles by summer.
Once it has been cut, Ross can take the grass and thistles away in one visit, which helps a lot when the grass is dry and the weather is warming up.
Epping gardens grow hard from September. Book the pickup in early spring, before the grass sets seed and the hedges put on their spring growth, and the job is smaller and cheaper than leaving it until the heat arrives.
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.
