Big suburban blocks, established natives and a lot of lawn. Ross takes away Glen Waverley's pruning piles and garden clean-up waste in one trailer trip.
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 Glen Waverley 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.
Pruning piles from large family 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.
Established yards cleared before rebuilds.
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.
Dry litter and dead shrubs removed.
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 down from gums and natives.
Glen Waverley grew quickly in the sixties and seventies, and much of it still has the layout of that era: generous blocks, brick homes set back from the street, and back yards with room for a lawn, a pool and a line of trees. The Kingsway shops and the station at the end of the Glen Waverley line anchor the centre.
A lot of the original houses have been rebuilt, but the gardens around them are often mature — natives planted decades ago, hedges, fruit trees and big shrubs. That creates a lot of garden waste. Ross provides green waste removal in Glen Waverley for the loads the bin can't handle.
Grevilleas, bottlebrush, wattles and tea-tree were popular when many Glen Waverley gardens went in. They're hardy, but after forty-odd years a lot of them are leggy, woody and partly dead.
Replacing or cutting them back is a common job. Once you've done it, Ross takes away the pile, old shrubs and all.
Glen Waverley sees a lot of rebuilding. Before an old house comes down, the garden is often cleared of anything the new owners don't want to keep.
Ross removes the green material ahead of demolition. That keeps it out of the builder's skip and gets it recycled instead of sent to landfill.
Larger blocks mean more lawn, more edges and more beds to keep weeded. Many owners deal with the day-to-day themselves and just need the build-up taken away every few months.
Ross is happy to do that — a regular green waste collection timed around your own pruning and weeding.
Glen Waverley back yards get a lot of use over the summer holidays. Book a clean-up in November to have the pruning pile gone, the beds cleared and the yard ready before family and friends arrive.
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.
