Pascoe Vale has solid postwar homes on good-sized blocks with plenty of garden to keep on top of. Ross takes the pruning pile, loaded by hand, no skip bin.
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 Pascoe Vale 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.
Hedges, shrubs and backyard fruit trees.
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.
Deep back yards cleared from fence to fence.
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 prunings and dead shrubs 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.
Branches down after a windy night.
Pascoe Vale is mostly interwar and postwar housing — Californian bungalows, weatherboards and brick veneers on reasonably wide blocks, with a mix of units and new townhouses coming in as older places are sold. The western side runs down toward the Moonee Ponds Creek, and many streets have mature trees on the nature strip.
The back yards tend to be deep, which is where the green waste comes from: tall shrubs along the fences, hedges out the front, old fruit trees and lawns that need edging. Ross handles green waste pickup across Pascoe Vale and Pascoe Vale South, loading it all by hand and taking it away.
Plenty of Pascoe Vale homes have tall screening plants and hedges — photinia, pittosporum, lilly pilly, cypress — for privacy from the neighbours or the street. They need a trim at least once a year, and one hard prune after a few years off makes a very large pile.
Ross takes those trimmings in bulk. If you are paying someone to cut the hedge, he can come behind them and clear up.
A lot of Pascoe Vale houses have a driveway down the side to a garage at the back. If the trailer can get up it, the job goes quicker, and it costs less.
Where there’s a gate, a caravan or a car in the way, Ross will carry it out to the street. He sweeps the drive and nature strip when he is finished.
Households with a lot of hedge and lawn often find a single pickup a year isn’t enough. A green waste collection every three or four months keeps the pile down and the back corner of the yard usable.
Book each one when it suits — there’s no contract or schedule to sign up to.
Hedges and screening plants in Pascoe Vale grow hardest from September through to December. A cut-back in early spring with a pickup straight after, then another round in summer, keeps them in shape without having to deal with a massive pile all at once.
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.
