Old village streets, larger blocks and properties running down into the Maribyrnong valley. Ross handles the bigger Keilor green waste jobs, one trailer load at a time.
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 Keilor 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.
Bigger loads from larger Keilor properties.
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.
Overgrown paddock edges and gardens tamed.
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 summer grass and dry growth carted away.
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.
Heavy limbs from old trees loaded and removed.
Keilor is one of the older settlements on this side of Melbourne, and it still has a village feel around its historic centre near the Maribyrnong River. Around that core are streets of family homes, and on the slopes and flats toward the river there are larger properties with more land than a typical suburban block.
More land means more to maintain. Keilor gardens often include big old trees, long fence lines, overgrown corners and grassy areas that grow hard in spring. Clearing a Keilor property properly can produce several trailer loads of green waste, and bulk green waste on that scale needs a proper plan.
On the larger Keilor blocks, the problem is rarely one hedge or one shrub. It is years of growth along fence lines, trees that have dropped limbs where nobody walks, and patches that have gone to blackberry, wild fennel or weedy scrub.
Once it has been cut, Ross can work through it section by section and take the waste away. For really big clearances, he will usually suggest splitting the job across more than one visit so each load is manageable.
Some Keilor properties sit on sloping ground down toward the river, where there is no easy way to get a trailer close. Loads may need to be carried or barrowed up the slope, which adds time.
Photos taken from the street and from the pile give Ross a good idea of the distance and the gradient before he quotes.
By Christmas, uncut grass on Keilor’s larger blocks has usually gone brown and dry. Left standing against sheds and fences, it is untidy and a fire hazard in a hot summer.
Once the grass has been slashed, Ross can remove the cut grass and other garden waste in one visit.
On Keilor’s bigger properties, the grass and weeds grow hardest in October and November and then dry off fast. Getting it cut in spring and booking the pickup before the heat arrives is easier and quicker than trying to deal with dry, knotted growth in the middle of summer.
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.
