Street trees, bungalow gardens and tight side paths. Bentleigh generates plenty of green waste, and Ross loads it by hand and takes it 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 Bentleigh 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.
Hedge trimmings and seasonal prunings.
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.
Bungalow gardens tidied before 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.
Summer tidy of dry beds and leaf litter.
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 down from big street and yard trees.
Bentleigh is built around Centre Road and the Frankston line, with streets of Californian bungalows, interwar brick homes and post-war weatherboards, many now joined by townhouses on subdivided lots. Mature street trees line a lot of the older streets, and the gardens behind the houses tend to be established and full.
That mix creates a steady flow of garden waste: autumn leaves off the street trees, hedge trims, roses and fruit trees pruned in winter, and big seasonal clean-ups. When it all piles up at once, green waste removal in Bentleigh saves weeks of trying to fit it into the bin.
A typical Bentleigh bungalow has a neat front garden with roses, a hedge along the fence and a lawn, and a back yard with fruit trees, shrubs and maybe a vegetable patch. Each of those needs trimming at a different time of year.
Ross takes whatever has been cut — hedge clippings, rose canes, fruit tree prunings, leaves — and loads it by hand. It all goes to a green waste facility to be composted or mulched.
Many Bentleigh houses have a single driveway down one side and a narrow path on the other. With townhouses built behind, access to the back yard can be tight.
Ross carries waste out by hand when a trailer cannot get close. Tell him about the layout when you book and send a photo so the price reflects the carry.
Bentleigh homes often sell to families looking for a garden, so presentation matters. Overgrown hedges and a back yard full of prunings do not photograph well.
Once the hedges and beds have been done, a pre-sale green waste pickup clears every offcut and leaves the yard ready for photos. Ross sweeps the paths and drive before he goes.
From April, the street trees in Bentleigh drop leaves on lawns, driveways and gutters. That is followed by winter pruning of roses and fruit trees. Booking green waste removal in May or June clears both before spring growth starts.
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.
