Lalor’s big original back yards grow a lot of fruit, vines and hedge. Ross clears the cuttings by hand and takes them off to be mulched.
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 Lalor 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.
Fruit trees, vines and hedges on big 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.
Green waste cleared from whole back yards.
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 cuttings cleared by 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 off old backyard trees, loaded and gone.
Lalor was one of Melbourne’s early postwar suburbs, started by the Peter Lalor Home Building Co-operative, and a lot of those original homes are still there on big, wide blocks. Around them there are newer units and townhouses on subdivided lots, but plenty of the old back yards remain.
Those yards were made for growing food and families. Fruit trees, grapevines, vegie gardens, a shed or two and a lawn big enough for cricket. They generate a lot of garden waste, and many long-time owners can no longer manage the lifting. Ross loads it and takes it away.
A Lalor back yard might have a couple of lemons, an apricot, a fig, a loquat and a pergola of grapes, all planted decades ago. Once a year they need pruning, and the pile that comes off is a trailer load on its own.
Ross takes the lot, including the thicker wood from older trees, and leaves the yard swept.
Plenty of Lalor homes are still owned by the families who built them or bought them early on. Keeping up a big garden gets harder with age, and families often book a clean-up on a parent’s behalf.
Ross is happy to work around what needs to stay and deal with whoever is organising it. Payment and access can be arranged with a family member.
As the older blocks are sold and subdivided, many need the garden cleared first. Ross takes away the shrubs, vines, prunings and weeds once they are out.
Standing trees are an arborist job, and many trees need a permit from the City of Whittlesea before they can be removed — check before booking. Once they’re down, Ross can take the branches.
Most Lalor fruit trees and vines are pruned in late winter. Book a pickup to follow, so the cuttings are gone before spring and the yard is ready for planting the vegie garden.
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.
