Wollert’s estates are carved out of open grassland, and the grass keeps coming back. Once it’s cut, Ross loads it and takes it off with the garden trimmings.
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 Wollert 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.
Trimmings and weeds from new 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.
Unkempt lots and rental yards.
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.
Cut dry grass taken from around the house.
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-blown branches in exposed streets.
Wollert is some of the newest housing in Melbourne’s north. Much of it was farmland until recently, and the estates have gone in on flat, open, grassy plains with few established trees. Lots are compact and homes are recent, with gardens that are still being planted or only a few years old.
The green waste here isn’t big old trees. It’s grass, weeds and fast-growing new plantings, plus the offcuts that come with finishing a garden. Wind comes across the open ground unchecked, and so does grass seed. Ross provides green waste removal for Wollert households that have outgrown the bin.
Open grassland surrounds much of Wollert, and it has a big influence on the gardens. Seeds blow onto lawns and into beds, vacant lots next door grow a metre high in spring, and the grass along back fences grows faster than people can keep up with.
Once it has been cut, Ross takes the grass away in one go along with everything else — useful for corner lots, vacant blocks and yards that have been left.
Families moving into a new Wollert home often redo the garden the builder put in. Plants come out, new screening goes along the fence, and garden beds get reshaped. All of it produces waste in one go.
One pickup after the landscaping is done beats months of overfilled bins. Ross takes plant material, prunings and weeds — not soil, rocks or building offcuts.
The biggest fire risk around Wollert is grass. Dry grass on nearby paddocks and vacant blocks can carry a fire fast on a hot, windy day, and the CFA declares a Fire Danger Period for the area each summer.
Keeping grass short around your home and removing dry cuttings rather than leaving them in a pile is the sensible preparation.
Grass in Wollert grows fast after the spring rain and is usually dry by December. Get the grass cut and book a pickup for October or November, before the Fire Danger Period and before the heat makes working on open ground hard going.
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.
