Established homes from the seventies and eighties in the north, newer estates to the south, and a lot of hedges and palms in between.
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 Keysborough 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 trimmings and palm fronds.
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 and newer estate homes.
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 grass and litter on larger blocks.
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.
Branches down after a stormy weekend.
Keysborough is a mix. The older northern part has brick homes built through the seventies and eighties, with established gardens, big hedges and mature trees. The southern part has much newer estates, with larger homes on smaller lots and gardens that lean on palms, screening plants and clipped hedges.
Either way, there's green waste to deal with. Palm fronds are bulky and awkward, hedges need regular cuts, and the older gardens have grown up and out over the decades. Ross does the pickup and takes the lot to be recycled.
Palms are a common choice in Keysborough gardens, and they shed fronds that are heavy, spiky and do not fit in a wheelie bin. Hedges and screening plants along the fence line are the other big source of garden waste.
Ross handles both. He'll load fronds whole, however awkward they are, and take hedge trimmings in whatever state they are in — piled, bagged or scattered across the lawn.
The established streets of Keysborough have gardens that have been growing for forty years or more. Many have trees that now shade most of the yard, shrubs that have swallowed the paths and garden beds that need resetting.
Once the cutting back is done, Ross can clear all of it in one visit, doing the carrying and loading. If a tree needs to come down, that is a job for an arborist first.
Keysborough has plenty of rentals and plenty of busy families who would rather not spend the weekend in the garden. A green waste pickup a few times a year keeps things manageable.
Book one after each hedge trim, or get Ross to clear the lot and sweep up when a lease ends. Either way there is no ongoing commitment.
Spring storms bring down branches, and hedges and palms put on growth through November. If you want the yard sorted before Christmas, book in October — December fills up fast.
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.
