Wyndham Vale mixes established streets with newer estates on its western side. Ross handles the prunings and yard waste from both, from the clippings of a quick hedge trim to the waste from a full overgrown yard.
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 Wyndham Vale 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.
Hedges, shrubs and grasses from family yards.
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.
Full back-yard catch-ups on bigger lots.
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 grass and dry growth hauled away before 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.
Branches brought down by strong winds.
Wyndham Vale has a mix of homes from the last few decades, with older family houses in the more established streets and a lot of newer estate housing on the fringe. Blocks vary: some have proper back yards with room for trees and a trampoline, others are the compact lots typical of the newer estates.
The established parts produce the bigger loads: trees that have grown into the space, long hedges and shrubs that need cutting back hard. The newer estates tend to be lighter trimmings and weeds. Either way, when the bin can't keep up, Ross can take it away.
In the older parts of Wyndham Vale, gardens have had time to grow. Trees shade the back yard, hedges line the boundary, and shrubs have spread well past the edges of their beds.
A catch-up clean-up in one of those yards can fill a trailer. Ross comes in once you've done the pruning and takes the lot in one go.
The newer estates in Wyndham Vale are still filling in, and many gardens are only a few years old. The waste here is mostly screen trimmings, pulled weeds and cut-back grasses.
Access is usually through a side gate or the garage. Ross carries the waste out by hand where a trailer can't get close.
Wyndham Vale is on the edge of open country, and summers get hot and dry. Long grass and dead growth in back yards and on larger lots can dry out quickly.
Once the grass has been cut, Ross can load it up with the dry growth and garden waste and take it all away in one visit.
Grass and weeds in Wyndham Vale shoot up in spring and dry off fast once summer arrives. Get the yard cleared and the green waste gone by November and there's much less to deal with through the hot months.
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.
