When a Mooroolbark garden produces more than the green bin can swallow, Ross brings the trailer, loads the pile by hand and takes it off to be recycled.
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 Mooroolbark 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.
The pile that has outgrown the green bin.
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.
Clean-up waste from family yards and rentals, collected.
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 growth and dry 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.
Wind-blown branches loaded up and carted off.
Mooroolbark is solid outer-east family territory. Most of it was built from the 1960s through the 1980s, so the streets are lined with brick and weatherboard homes on comfortable blocks, with lawns out the front and room for a shed, a trampoline and a decent garden out the back. Closer to the station and the shops there are more units and townhouses.
Gardens that have been in for forty or fifty years are well established, and plenty of Mooroolbark yards now have big trees, thick shrubs and hedges that take real effort to keep in check. A weekend of pruning can leave a pile that would take months to feed through the bin — and that's where a green waste pickup makes sense.
A lot of Mooroolbark jobs follow the same pattern. Someone spends Saturday and Sunday cutting back the garden, the heap on the lawn grows bigger than expected, and by Monday it's clear the green bin isn't going to cope. Ross can usually be there within the week.
He takes the pile as it is — no need to bag or bundle. Branches are stacked so they pack tightly, loose material goes in by the armful, and the lawn is swept before the trailer leaves.
Mooroolbark has a lot of first-home buyers and rental properties, and both often come with a garden that has been neglected for a while. New owners want to start with a clean yard; landlords want the property looking cared for before the next tenant signs.
Either way, a one-off garden clean-up clears the overgrowth in a day. From there, a regular collection every season or two keeps it from getting back to where it was.
Big trees on neighbouring properties drop leaves and branches over the fence, and those end up being your problem. Ross will take whatever has landed on your side, along with the rest of the garden waste.
If a neighbour's tree is dropping big limbs regularly, it may be worth talking to them or to an arborist. Ross only deals with what's on the ground — he doesn't do tree work.
In Mooroolbark the busiest time for green waste is spring, when everyone starts pruning at once and the green bins are full for weeks. Get the date locked in early in September and your pile won't be waiting on the lawn while the grass underneath dies.
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.
