Seddon's cottages sit close together on small blocks, often with no side access. Ross carries the prunings, weeds and vines out by hand and takes them away.
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 Seddon 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.
Courtyard prunings carried through the house.
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.
Every pile in a small yard loaded and gone.
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 weeds and litter out of tight corners.
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 that have come down over the back fence removed.
Seddon is one of the most compact suburbs in the west. Rows of single-fronted weatherboard and brick cottages on narrow blocks, a small front garden, and a back yard that might be a courtyard, a lawn the size of a rug, or a tangle of plants left by the last owner.
Because the blocks are so tight, getting garden waste out is often harder than creating it. Plenty of houses are attached on one side or have a path barely wide enough for a wheelie bin. Ross is used to it: the job gets carried out in armfuls or tarps, loaded onto the trailer out front, and the hallway gets swept on the way out.
A surprising number of Seddon back yards can only be reached through the house. No side gate, no rear laneway access, just a hallway and a back door. That rules out a skip and makes a lot of people put the job off.
Ross lays down drop sheets or tarps where needed and carries it through carefully. It is slower than a driveway job, so it's priced accordingly, but it gets done without you having to haul anything yourself.
Small yards don't mean small amounts. A single overgrown tree in a courtyard can fill the space, and creepers on shared fences grow from both sides. Weeds get away quickly in the gaps between pavers and along the fence lines.
The typical Seddon pile is a mix: prunings from one tree or large shrub, climbers pulled off a fence, and a season's worth of weeds and leaves.
If you keep on top of the garden yourself but the bin is never big enough, a green waste collection every few months can work well. You prune as you go, stack it in one corner and Ross takes it away on the next visit.
There is no contract. Book it when the pile is ready.
Leaves and prunings are much easier to carry out through a Seddon hallway when they're dry. Get the autumn clean-up done before the wet sets in and the pile turns into a soggy mat in the corner of the yard.
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.
