Wide postwar blocks, big back yards and screens of natives along the fences. Ross clears the bulk green waste from Mont Albert North and takes it for recycling.
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 Mont Albert North 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.
Bulk loads from wide postwar 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.
Big back-yard clean-up piles cleared away.
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.
Dead natives and dry litter carted off.
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.
Fallen gum limbs loaded and removed.
Mont Albert North sits between Balwyn North and Box Hill North, with Koonung Creek and the Eastern Freeway along its northern side. It filled up in the fifties and sixties, and the street pattern shows it: wide streets, generous frontages, and houses set well back with a big yard behind.
Plenty of the original homes have been replaced with larger new houses, but the yards are still bigger than in most of the inner east. Big yards mean big piles. When a weekend of pruning leaves more than a few bins' worth, Ross will pick up the bulk green waste, load it himself and take it away.
A lot of Mont Albert North gardens were planted with fast-growing screens along the side and back fences — bottlebrush, pittosporum, conifers and wattles. Decades on, those plants are tall, woody and often half dead underneath.
Cutting them back or taking them out produces a serious volume of material. Ross collects what you or your arborist have already cut and hauls it away. If a piece looks too big to lift, send a photo first and he'll let you know.
When a new house goes up here, the garden around it is often left until last. By the time the owners move in, there's a mix of old plants, builders' leftovers and weeds that have taken over the bare ground.
Ross will take away the green part of that — the weeds, old plants and shrubs once they've been pulled out — so the landscaper has a clean start. Builders' rubble and soil need to go with a different service.
One advantage of these wider blocks is access. Most houses have a proper driveway, and often there's room to reverse the trailer right up to the pile.
That keeps the job quick. If the pile is behind a pool fence or at the bottom of a sloping yard, Ross just carries it out.
Once the weather warms up in September, the natives and screening plants in Mont Albert North put on a lot of growth. Cut them back in late winter or early spring and book a pickup straight after, before the new growth gets away.
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.
