Williams Landing is a newer, compact suburb of townhouses and modern homes. Ross takes away the courtyard trimmings and hedge clippings that don't fit in a small green 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 Williams Landing 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 and planter trimmings.
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.
Townhouse gardens tidied for sale or lease.
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 clippings cleared from small yards.
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.
Wind-damaged branches from young trees.
Williams Landing was planned from scratch around a town centre and railway station, and it's one of the more compact suburbs in Wyndham. A lot of homes are townhouses or double-storeys on small lots, with a courtyard, a strip of garden or a few planter beds rather than a full back yard.
Small gardens still produce green waste. Screen hedges along boundaries, climbers on fences, and plants in courtyards all need trimming, and a townhouse green bin is often smaller or shared. Ross does one-off green waste pickups for that kind of home, as well as bigger clean-ups on the larger lots.
Williams Landing gardens tend to be designed for privacy: tall screen plants along fences, climbers on trellis, and a courtyard with a few feature plants. They grow quickly and need regular trimming to stay neat.
The trimmings are often too much for one bin but too little to justify a skip. A trailer pickup is the practical answer.
Many townhouses in Williams Landing have access only through the garage or the house. There's no side path and the courtyard is walled in.
Ross can carry green waste through the garage or the house with drop sheets down to protect the floors. It takes a bit longer, and the price reflects that.
Williams Landing has a mix of owners and renters, and gardens are sometimes left to go for a while between tenancies. A quick clean-up before a new lease or an inspection saves a lot of hassle.
Ross can work with the property manager or the owner directly and clear the yard in one visit.
Small gardens in Williams Landing get overgrown quickly in spring and early summer. A pickup after the spring trim stops the courtyard turning into a jungle before the warm weather when you actually want to use it.
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.
