Big, leafy blocks on hilly ground, with gums, tea-tree and established gardens that turn out a lot more than a bin can hold.
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 Frankston South 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.
Bulk prunings from large leafy blocks.
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.
Sloping gardens and long driveways.
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.
Bark and litter under gums and tea-tree.
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.
Gum limbs dropped across drives and lawns.
Frankston South is the leafier, hillier end of Frankston. The blocks are generally bigger, the houses sit further back from the street and a lot of properties keep plenty of native bush alongside the garden. Some streets feel more like the Peninsula than the suburbs.
All that vegetation needs managing. Gums drop bark and limbs, tea-tree grows thick and woody, and big established gardens need regular cutting back. The green bin barely scratches the surface. Ross brings the trailer, does the heavy lifting and handles the disposal.
Properties in Frankston South often have a mix of formal garden near the house and bushier ground beyond it. Over time the bush creeps in: tea-tree gets thick, undergrowth builds up and fallen branches collect beneath the canopy.
Clearing that back, even partially, makes a real difference to how the block looks and how safe it is in summer. Once it has been cut, Ross removes the material rather than leaving a pile to rot or become fuel.
With this much tree cover, Frankston South is one of the parts of Frankston City where fire preparation is worth taking seriously. The CFA declares a Fire Danger Period for the area each summer, and the council can issue fire prevention notices.
The focus should be close to the house: litter, bark, dead shrubs and dry prunings. Getting it gone in spring, before it dries out completely, is the best approach. Ross takes it all off the property in one visit.
Many blocks sit on a slope, and some have long driveways or steps down to the back yard. A trailer can usually get close, but not always.
If the pile is well away from the drive, Ross carries it. Let him know about the access so the price is right first time.
Frankston South blocks carry a lot of litter by the end of spring. Clearing it in October or November, before the Fire Danger Period and before the hot weather, is far easier than trying to get it done in the Christmas rush.
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.
