Boronia runs from busy streets around the station up to leafy foothills blocks under the Dandenongs. Ross clears the garden waste from both.
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 Boronia 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.
Garden waste from flat and foothills blocks.
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.
Overgrown yards and rentals cleared out.
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.
Litter and dry growth cleared near the ranges.
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 blown down off the hills.
Boronia has two sides to it. Around the station and Boronia Junction it's a busy suburban centre, with units and older homes packed in close to the shops. Head east and the streets start to climb toward The Basin and the foot of the Dandenong Ranges, with bigger blocks and a lot more tree cover.
The green waste changes with the terrain. Near the centre it's hedges, shrubs and garden beds on typical suburban lots. Toward the hills, gums drop bark and branches, native gardens sprawl, and the leaf litter builds up quickly. Ross handles both kinds of job.
The flatter parts of Boronia are mostly 1960s and 1970s houses, with more units being built on subdivided blocks. The gardens are modest but established, and pruning them still makes more than the green bin can take.
Those jobs are usually quick and easy — trailer on the driveway, pile loaded, lawn swept. Ross does small loads as well as full trailers.
On the eastern side, closer to the ranges, blocks are larger and often sloping, and the trees are bigger. There's a steady fall of bark, leaves and twigs, and native gardens that need cutting back every few years.
Keeping that material cleared from around the house matters more here than down on the flat, especially as summer gets closer. Ross clears the litter and dead growth and takes it right away, rather than it being piled up at the back of the yard.
Boronia has plenty of rental properties, and overgrown gardens come up often at the end of a lease. A clean-up clears the overgrowth and accumulated garden waste in one visit.
Ross can coordinate access with the property manager and send photos when it's done, so the landlord doesn't have to be there.
On the foothills streets of Boronia, the time to clear bark, litter and prunings is late spring, before the weather gets hot. Book in October or November so it's done while the ground is still green and the calendar isn't full.
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.
