Bundoora’s family blocks from the 1970s and 80s have had decades to fill out. Ross loads the prunings by hand and takes them 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 Bundoora 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.
Natives, hedges and courtyard 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.
Student rentals and family homes tidied.
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 native litter cleared 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.
Gum limbs down after a gusty night.
Bundoora is a big, spread-out suburb split between three councils, stretching either side of Plenty Road from Bundoora Park and La Trobe University up past the ring road. Much of the housing went up in the 1970s and 80s: brick veneer family homes in quiet courts and crescents, on blocks with a decent front garden and room out the back.
Those gardens were often planted with natives when native gardens were the fashion — grevilleas, bottlebrush, wattles, tea-tree and the odd gum — and forty-odd years later they are big, woody and in need of a hard cut. That’s a lot of garden waste, and Ross takes it away in one trip rather than a year of green bins.
Native shrubs planted in the 70s and 80s have usually gone one of two ways: leggy and sparse, or dense and taking over the front yard. Either way, the fix is a hard prune or removal, and that produces heavy, twiggy bulk that doesn’t fit in a bin.
Wattles and some grevilleas also have a limited life and tend to die off in patches. Dead shrubs are brittle and light once they are out of the ground — Ross loads them and takes them with the rest.
With La Trobe and the RMIT Bundoora campus close by, plenty of houses are student or share rentals. Gardens at those places tend to get ignored until the end of the lease, then everything needs doing at once.
Once the overgrowth is cut back and the weeds pulled, Ross removes all the green waste in one go. Property managers can book it directly and arrange access with Ross.
The court layout helps. Most Bundoora houses have a wide driveway and a double-width nature strip, so the trailer can usually get close to the pile. That keeps the loading time down.
Where the pile is behind a locked side gate or down a slope into the back yard, mention it when you book. Ross can carry it; it just takes longer.
Native shrubs respond best to a prune after they flower, which for many Bundoora gardens is late spring. Book a green waste pickup to follow straight after, and you go into summer with the dry, twiggy growth gone rather than sitting in a pile beside the house.
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.
