English-style gardens under a forest canopy. Ross takes away the prunings, leaves and branches that Sassafras gardens produce all year round.
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 Sassafras 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.
Cool-climate garden prunings and leaves.
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.
Big loads from overgrown exotic gardens being tamed.
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 debris cleared from around the home.
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 cleared off driveways after wild weather.
Sassafras is one of the prettiest villages in the Dandenongs, with the Mount Dandenong Tourist Road running through its centre and tall forest on every side. Behind the shops, homes are tucked into sloping blocks with gardens that make the most of the cool, wet climate.
Those gardens are lush but demanding. Maples, rhododendrons, hydrangeas and ferns grow quickly, deciduous trees drop masses of leaves in autumn, and the forest canopy adds branches and bark on top. Ross offers garden waste pickup across Sassafras, clearing prunings and debris by hand and taking the load away for recycling.
Many Sassafras gardens are planted with deciduous trees that colour up beautifully in autumn — and then drop everything. By the end of May, beds and lawns can be buried in leaves, and a green bin fills in minutes.
Ross can do an end-of-autumn pickup to get rid of the leaf fall along with anything pruned over winter. It is also a good time to clear away the hydrangeas and perennials once you have cut them back.
Sassafras streets are narrow and winding, and parking a trailer on the Tourist Road is not an option at busy times. Side streets are better, but many driveways are steep or shared.
Ross will pick the safest place to park and carry from there if necessary. Letting him know about the access and where the piles are means he can quote accurately and plan the job around weekend traffic.
Even lush gardens dry out in a hot summer, and the forest around Sassafras carries a very high bushfire risk. Leaf litter and dead plant material close to the house should be cleared well before the hot weather.
Ross can collect what has been gathered from around the house, decks and outbuildings and remove all the waste, so there is nothing left to catch an ember.
Late autumn is the time to clear leaf fall, and spring is the time to get ready for the Fire Danger Period. Both are busy in the hills, so book as early as you can.
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.
