Mount Waverley's hilly streets and sloping back yards make garden waste harder to shift. Ross carries it up, loads it and takes it away 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 Mount Waverley 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.
Prunings from sloping, established gardens.
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 piles carried up from hillside 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.
Dead growth and dry litter taken away.
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 down from mature gums and exotics.
Mount Waverley lives up to its name. The streets rise and fall across a series of hills, and a lot of houses sit on sloping blocks with split-level designs, retaining walls and back yards that drop away. Scotchmans Creek runs through the suburb, and Valley Reserve provides a big patch of green.
Much of the housing went up after the war and through the sixties, and the gardens have had plenty of time to grow. Slopes make it hard to get green waste out, so it tends to build up. Ross provides green waste removal in Mount Waverley, doing the carrying and loading so you don't have to.
On many Mount Waverley blocks the back yard is a level or two below the driveway. Wheeling a barrow full of branches up a slope is hard work, and it's often why piles sit there for months.
Ross does the carrying. He'll use a tarp to drag lighter material and carry the heavier pieces by hand, then sweep the paths and steps once he's done.
Mount Waverley gardens often combine exotic trees planted by the first owners with natives added later. The result is a lot of leaves in autumn, bark and twigs year-round, and shrubs that need a regular cut-back.
Ross can do a one-off pickup after a big garden clean-up or collect the pile each time you've pruned, whichever suits.
Hilltop streets catch the wind, and big trees can drop limbs in a storm. Ross collects fallen branches and takes them away.
Damaged or leaning trees, or limbs still hung up in the canopy, are a job for an arborist. Monash City Council may need to approve any removal.
Most Mount Waverley gardens get cut back in winter, and the pile ends up at the bottom of the yard where it's hardest to shift. Book a pickup for late August or September and have it gone before spring growth starts.
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.
