Rolling hills, small farms and lifestyle properties above Berwick. If you've got a paddock full of fallen branches, Ross can load it and take 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 Harkaway 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.
Branch heaps and prunings from rural 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.
House gardens and overgrown sheds on acreage.
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.
Fuel reduction before summer on the hills.
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.
Windthrow on exposed ridgelines and driveways.
Harkaway is a small rural locality in the hills north of Berwick. It has a scattering of houses on large blocks, hobby farms, grazing paddocks and plenty of remnant gums along the roads and fence lines. It feels like the country, even though the suburbs are only a few minutes down the hill.
That makes for a different kind of green waste job. Rather than a few bags from a courtyard, it tends to be a winter of storm debris, windbreak prunings and garden beds that have run wild. Ross comes out with the trailer, loads everything by hand and takes it away.
Being higher and more open than the suburbs below, Harkaway properties cop the wind. Gums and cypress windbreaks drop limbs, and after a rough night there can be debris across the driveway, the fence and the house yard.
Ross clears what is on the ground: branches, broken limbs and scattered sticks. He does not do tree work in the canopy, but he will take away the mess once an arborist has made anything dangerous safe.
Harkaway's grassy hills and treed roadsides make it a place where fire preparation genuinely matters. The CFA declares a Fire Danger Period for Casey each year, and once it starts, burning off is restricted.
The best use of a spring clean-up is the area immediately around the house and sheds — dead leaves, bark, dry garden prunings and anything flammable stacked against walls. Ross removes that material rather than leaving it in a heap on the property.
Plenty of Harkaway blocks have a few fruit trees, a vegetable patch or a home orchard. The winter prune alone can fill a trailer. Add hawthorn or blackberry that has taken over a fence and there's a decent day's work.
Green material like this goes to a facility where it is mulched and composted. Keep it free of wire, plastic ties and netting and it can all go in one load.
Once the grass on the Harkaway hills turns brown, fire season is close. Aim to have the branch piles and house-zone clean-up done in October or November, well before the Fire Danger Period restricts what you can do on the property.
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.
