Mulgrave is 1970s and 80s family homes plus newer estates like Waverley Park. Different gardens, same problem — more garden waste than the bin can hold.
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 Mulgrave 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.
Lawn edges, screens and shrub offcuts.
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 established family gardens, 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.
Dry grass and dead plants 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.
Branches from established yard trees.
Mulgrave grew up in the 1970s and 80s as a suburb of brick family homes on decent blocks, with wide streets, front lawns and back yards big enough for a pool or a trampoline. More recently the old Waverley Park football ground was redeveloped into a housing estate, adding a newer, more compact style of home and garden.
Older Mulgrave gardens have had forty-odd years to grow. Screening shrubs along fences are now small trees, conifers have gone past the gutters and garden beds are crowded. Newer estate gardens are smaller but grow quickly. Both end up needing green waste removal in Mulgrave once the pruning gets serious.
Many of the original Mulgrave homes were planted out when they were built and have not been cut back hard since. Conifers, photinias, bottlebrushes and pittosporums along the fence lines are now well over head height and shading half the yard.
Reducing them makes the garden usable again, but the waste from a single row can fill a trailer. Ross loads it by hand and takes it away, leaving the yard swept.
Newer homes in the Waverley Park estate and similar pockets have compact gardens with hedges, screening plants and small lawns. Blocks are tight and there is rarely room to leave a pile of green waste sitting around.
A regular pickup after each trim suits these gardens. Ross parks on the street and carries the waste out, and he is careful with new paving and landscaping.
Plenty of Mulgrave back yards have pools, and leaves and prunings around a pool fence are a constant job. Shrubs that grow over the fence also need to be kept clear.
Ross takes the prunings, leaf litter and any old plants once they are pulled out of beds around the pool area. The whole load goes for composting or mulching.
Mulgrave families want the back yard ready for summer, and the pool area clear of leaves and prunings. Get the spring cut-back done and the green waste collected by November, before the heat arrives and everyone else books the same fortnight.
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.
