Courtyards, terraces and cottage gardens with no side access — Ross carries the green waste out by hand, loads it at the kerb 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 Brunswick 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.
Carried out of courtyards and terraces.
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.
Share-house and end-of-lease 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.
Dead vines and dry cuttings cleared out.
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.
Fallen limbs carried out by hand.
Brunswick is terraces, workers cottages and Victorian-era houses packed in close either side of Sydney Road, with warehouse conversions and newer apartment blocks in between. Most gardens are small: a front strip, a courtyard or a narrow back yard, often with a laneway behind.
Small doesn’t mean low-maintenance. A courtyard with a grapevine, a passionfruit, a fig and some pots can produce a surprising amount when it gets cut back, and the green bin fills up fast. Ross does the carrying, loads the trailer outside and takes the lot for green waste disposal.
The typical Brunswick load is not a big tree job. It is a year of growth off vines and climbers, a lemon or fig cut back hard, weeds pulled from between pavers, and a collection of dead pot plants that were never quite revived.
It all adds up to more than a few wheelie bins, and there is nowhere to stack it in a small yard while you wait.
Most terrace and cottage blocks in Brunswick have no side access at all. Everything from the back yard has to come either through the house or out the back gate into the lane.
Ross is used to it. He carries branches carefully so they don’t catch on door frames, puts tarps down through the hall, and loads at the kerb or in the laneway. Street parking can be tight, so tell him if there is a clearway or permit zone out the front.
Brunswick has a lot of rentals and share houses, and the back yard is easy to forget until the final inspection is a week away. Once the beds are cut back and the weeds pulled, a garden clean-up gets all the green waste out so the yard is back to something close to how it started.
Ross only takes garden waste. Old furniture, mattresses and general junk from the share house need a different service.
The busiest times in Brunswick are the end-of-lease rush and the late-winter cut-back of vines and fruit trees. If your inspection date is fixed, book the garden clean-up a week or two before it rather than the day before.
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.
