Blackburn South has family homes on solid suburban blocks, with established gardens and trees near Gardiners Creek. Ross clears the prunings and leaf piles they leave behind.
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 Blackburn South 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, shrub and lawn-edge 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.
Family gardens cleared 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 build-up removed before the summer heat.
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.
Limbs from backyard and creek-side trees.
Blackburn South is mostly 1960s family housing — brick homes on standard blocks, laid out along wide streets, with Gardiners Creek and its reserves winding through. It's less densely treed than Blackburn to the north, but most back yards still have a couple of big trees, hedges and plenty of shrubs.
That makes for steady, seasonal green waste: hedges in spring and summer, leaves in autumn, and the odd bigger clean-up when a house is sold or rented. Ross brings the trailer, loads it himself and takes it away for green waste disposal.
Many Blackburn South homes have hedges along the front fence or between neighbours — lilly pilly, photinia, murraya and the like. They grow fast in spring and need a good trim a couple of times a year.
A long hedge trim fills the green bin several times over. Ross can take the lot in one trip, whether you've trimmed it yourself or had a gardener do it.
Properties close to Gardiners Creek often have bigger trees and more leaf and stick drop. Branches can come down in strong wind, and the litter accumulates in back corners.
Ross clears fallen limbs that are on the ground and takes away leaf litter and sticks. Trees that are still standing and look unsafe should be checked by an arborist, and removals may need a permit from Whitehorse City Council.
When a Blackburn South home is being sold or leased, a garden tidy-up makes a real difference. Overgrown beds, a messy side path and a pile of old cuttings don’t photograph well.
Once the beds are cut back, weeded and raked, Ross takes everything away and sweeps up so the yard is ready for the photographer or inspection.
By November, hedges in Blackburn South are thick with new growth, and many owners want them trimmed before Christmas. Get the trim done and book the green waste removal in October so it's gone before the rush.
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.
