Large, heavily treed blocks near the bay, where the garden often merges into coastal bush and the pruning pile can get very big.
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 Mount Eliza 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 garden waste from big treed properties.
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.
Large gardens between formal beds and bush.
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.
Litter and dead growth cleared near the house.
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.
Heavy limbs down after strong bay winds.
Mount Eliza is at the top of the Mornington Peninsula, and it is known for big blocks and lots of trees. Many properties have established gardens around the house and native bush beyond — tea-tree, moonah, banksia and gums — with the canopy running across boundaries.
That combination produces serious volumes of green waste. Big gardens need big cut-backs, and bush areas drop litter and branches all year. Ross takes on the jobs that are well past the green bin, loading bulk green waste by hand and taking it away for recycling.
On many Mount Eliza properties there is no clear line where the garden ends. Tea-tree and moonah grow into dense thickets, native undergrowth builds up and dead material collects underneath.
Once it has been cut back, Ross can load that material and remove it. Some native vegetation on the Peninsula is protected, so check with Mornington Peninsula Shire before clearing anything significant.
With so much vegetation, fire readiness is a real consideration in Mount Eliza. The CFA declares a Fire Danger Period for the Mornington Peninsula each summer, and burning off is off the table once it starts.
The practical focus is the area closest to the house, where litter and dry prunings pose the most risk. Ross loads that up and removes it from the property in the same visit.
Some Mount Eliza homes have extensive formal gardens with hedges, lawns and big ornamental trees. Keeping them presentable involves regular pruning and hedge cuts that add up to large volumes.
A seasonal green waste pickup keeps up with that. Stack the cuttings in one spot and Ross will clear it.
Summer on the Peninsula means visitors, holiday traffic and hot days. Spring is the time to get the green waste gone — before the Fire Danger Period is declared and before December's rush.
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.
