Hedge trimmings, plane-tree leaves and big pruning jobs from Kew's old gardens, carried out by hand and taken away in one 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 Kew 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.
Hedge and shrub trimmings from established gardens.
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.
Deceased estates, rentals and pre-sale tidy-ups.
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 growth cleared before summer.
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 the big old garden trees.
Kew is one of Melbourne's older garden suburbs. Big Victorian and Edwardian houses sit next to interwar homes and newer builds, and a lot of them have mature gardens that were laid out decades ago — clipped hedges, tall shrubs, lawns and large exotic trees that have had a long time to grow.
Gardens like that throw off a steady stream of material. One good hedge trim can fill three or four green bins, and the council bin only comes once a fortnight. Ross handles the overflow: he turns up with the trailer, loads the pile himself and takes it off for green waste disposal.
A lot of Kew front gardens are defined by their hedges. Box, lilly pilly, photinia and privet all need regular clipping to stay tidy, and the trimmings pile up fast. Behind them there's often a canopy of elms, oaks or liquidambars that have been there longer than the current owners.
None of that is a problem if someone deals with the offcuts. Ross takes the lot — fine clippings, woody prunings and bigger branches — so you can get the hedge done properly instead of trimming a bit at a time to fit the bin.
Parking on some Kew streets is tight, especially near Kew Junction and the schools during pickup times. Many older houses have a narrow side path rather than a driveway, and the pile is often in the back corner of a deep block.
Ross works around it. He parks the trailer as close as he legally can, carries the green waste out by hand and sweeps the path on the way out. If you mention the access when you get in touch, the price will already allow for the walk.
Kew has a lot of long-held family homes, and when one changes hands the garden is usually the last thing anyone has had time for. Overgrown shrubs, a back corner full of old prunings and years of leaves in the beds are common.
A one-off clean-up before the photos, before settlement or between tenants makes a real difference. Once the cutting back is done, Ross can take away everything in the same visit.
Late April through June is when Kew's deciduous trees drop everything at once, and the green bin fills in a day. Book a pickup for the end of the leaf fall and get the beds, lawn and gutters cleared in one go rather than bagging it for weeks.
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.
