Macleod has established gardens, big street trees and a fair number of rental houses. When the pile gets away from you, Ross comes and takes it.
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 Macleod 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 cuttings from family yards.
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.
Rental yards reset between tenants.
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 growth and litter cleared for 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.
Wind-blown limbs loaded and cleared.
Macleod is a quiet, established suburb with its own station on the Hurstbridge line and La Trobe University just across the boundary in Bundoora. Most homes date from the post-war decades, on gently sloping blocks with mature gardens, and the streets are well treed.
Established gardens mean a constant cycle of pruning, raking and cutting back. Hedges and shrubs that have been in the ground for decades need taming, deciduous trees drop leaves in autumn, and gums shed through the year. Ross provides green waste removal for Macleod homes, loading everything by hand so there's no need for a skip.
Being close to the university and the train line, Macleod has its share of rental houses, and gardens are often the first thing to slip between tenancies. Landlords and property managers regularly need a yard brought back into shape at short notice.
Ross takes away cut overgrowth, pulled weeds and old piles of prunings and leaves the yard ready for inspection or new tenants. Send photos and your deadline and he'll give you a price and a date.
Owner-occupied Macleod homes tend to have well-loved gardens: hedges along the fence, a big tree or two out the back, fruit trees and roses. Every year they produce more material than the green bin can handle.
A green waste pickup after the big spring prune or the autumn leaf fall clears the backlog. Leave the pile wherever is easiest; Ross will load it and sweep up after himself.
The big trees that make Macleod so leafy also drop limbs when the wind gets up. If a branch has come down across the yard or the driveway, Ross can load it up and take it away.
He doesn't do tree work. A hanging branch or a tree that looks unsafe needs an arborist, and Banyule City Council may require a permit before certain trees are removed. Ross can come afterwards to clear the cut material.
Macleod bookings bunch up around autumn, when the trees shed and gutters overflow, and in spring, when gardens put on their growth and hedges need their first big cut of the year. Getting in early in either period makes it easier to secure the date you need.
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.
