Croydon North's hilly streets and bigger, bushier blocks make plenty of green waste. Ross hand-loads it, sweeps up 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 Croydon North 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.
Prunings off sloping, well-treed 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.
Terraced gardens and overgrown banks.
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.
Bark and litter pulled back from the house.
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 cleared from steep driveways.
Croydon North sits on higher, more rolling ground than the flat streets around the Croydon shops. The blocks tend to be larger, a lot of them slope, and there's more tree cover — tall eucalypts, established exotics and native gardens that have been left to fill out. Many homes date from the 1960s to the 1980s, often split-level to suit the fall of the land.
Sloping gardens with lots of trees generate a lot of material, and they're awkward to clear. Branches come down the bank, leaf litter piles up against retaining walls, and the bottom of the yard becomes the place where prunings go to be forgotten. That's the sort of job Ross does every week.
A split-level house on a slope usually means garden on several levels: a top terrace, a bank, and a flat area down the bottom. Every level collects its own share of leaves and prunings, and getting them all back up to the street is the hard part.
Ross does that carrying himself. He'll bring material up steps and along paths to the trailer, which is why he asks for a photo of the route when you enquire — it lets him quote the job properly first time.
The tree cover in Croydon North is a big part of its appeal, and it's also the reason gutters, beds and lawns are never clear for long. Eucalypts drop bark and twigs year round. Exotic trees add a big autumn leaf drop on top.
For households that want to stay ahead of it, a green waste collection two or three times a year works well — once after the spring prune, again before summer, and after the autumn leaves are raked up.
The upper, treed parts of Croydon North have more vegetation around houses than the streets closer to the station. Clearing dry litter, loose bark and cut material away from the house and deck before the hot weather is simple, worthwhile maintenance.
Ross loads it all in one visit, for one price, and the waste goes to a green waste facility instead of sitting in a heap.
Working on a steep Croydon North garden in thirty-degree heat is miserable. Book the green waste pickup for October or November, while it's mild, and the block is clean and ready before summer.
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.
