Rosanna's big old trees and established gardens are why people love it. They're also why the green bin is full by Tuesday, and Ross can clear the overflow.
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 Rosanna 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.
Leaves and prunings from mature 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.
Long-held gardens cleared of built-up waste.
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.
Gutters and dry litter 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.
Storm limbs cleared from yards and drives.
Rosanna is a settled, leafy suburb with a station on the Hurstbridge line and a strong sense of being established. Housing runs from interwar bungalows through to post-war brick and a scattering of newer builds, mostly on generous blocks. The gardens have had decades to fill out, and many streets are lined with large trees.
Mature trees and long-established gardens mean a lot of green waste, especially at certain times of year. Deciduous trees drop leaves by the barrow-load in autumn, hedges grow thick and tall, and wind brings down branches. Ross collects it all in one visit and takes it for green waste disposal.
When the leaves come down in Rosanna, they really come down. Gutters fill, paths get slippery and garden beds disappear under a layer of brown. Raking it all up is one job; getting rid of it is another, because a bin will take only a fraction of it.
Ross takes leaves bagged, in heaps or piled on a tarp. It all goes into the trailer together with any prunings or branches, and the area is swept before he leaves.
A lot of Rosanna homes have been in the same family for a long time, and the gardens show it. Hedges have thickened, shrubs have grown into trees, and there may be an old pile of cuttings behind the garage that has been waiting for years.
Whether you're selling, downsizing or just getting on top of things, a garden clean-up clears the waste in a day. Ross can work alongside a gardener or come in after them to take away the waste.
Some Rosanna properties have long driveways right to the back yard. Others have a garage built to the boundary, a narrow side path, or a garden that slopes away from the street.
Ross carries it out by hand when needed. It affects how long the job takes, so sending a photo of the route out to the street with your enquiry means the quote is right from the start.
The leaf drop runs from late April through June, and it's when most Rosanna households decide they need a hand. Booking early in the season, rather than waiting until the bags have been piled up for months, makes it much easier to get a date.
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.
