Fairfield’s established gardens and big street trees make a steady supply of leaves, hedge trimmings and prunings. Ross loads it all by hand and takes it 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 Fairfield 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.
Leaves, hedges and established-garden prunings.
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.
Period-home gardens tidied for sale.
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.
Dead wood and dry cuttings cleared early.
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 off mature trees after high winds.
Fairfield sits on the north bank of the Yarra, and it has the feel of a quieter, leafier version of the inner north. The streets are lined with Edwardian weatherboards and Californian bungalows, many carefully restored, with front gardens that people actually look after and mature trees in both the yards and the nature strips.
Well-kept gardens still need cutting back, and a lot of Fairfield households find the green bin is full before the job is half done. Ross provides a straightforward green waste pickup: he comes to the house, loads the cuttings and leaves by hand, and takes them to be composted.
A lot of Fairfield gardens were planted a long time ago and have been kept in shape ever since — clipped box and pittosporum hedges, roses, camellias, a Japanese maple or a crepe myrtle out the front. The shape stays neat, but every trim still comes to a few bags.
Out the back there is often more going on: a big old tree shading half the yard, fruit trees, an overgrown corner behind the garage. That is where the bigger loads come from.
The deciduous trees that make Fairfield look so good in autumn also bury it. Leaves pile up on paths, fill gutters, smother lawns and go slimy on the driveway within a couple of wet weeks.
Rake them into a heap or bag them — either is fine. Ross takes leaves by the trailer load, and often picks up the late-autumn prune in the same trip.
Plenty of Fairfield homes are period houses with original fences, tiled paths and narrow side gates. Nobody wants a branch dragged along the verandah tiles or through the leadlight door.
Ross carries loads rather than dragging them, lays a tarp where there’s a risk of marking a path, and checks the route before starting. If the only way out is through the house, tell him when you book.
Fairfield’s leaves come down mostly from late April into June. A pickup at the end of that run clears the lot at once, instead of fighting the green bin every fortnight through winter.
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.
