Hedge clippings, prunings and bags of autumn leaves cleared out of Essendon’s period gardens and taken away on the trailer, without a skip sitting on the nature strip for a week.
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 Essendon 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 and shrub cuttings from period front gardens.
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.
Deceased-estate and pre-auction garden tidy-ups.
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.
Mostly cut grass and dry growth picked up and taken away.
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 off big old garden trees after a blow.
Essendon is full of houses that have had the same garden for eighty or a hundred years. Victorian and Edwardian homes, Californian bungalows, deep front yards behind a hedge, and back gardens with a lemon tree, a couple of roses and something large that someone planted in 1950 and nobody has cut back hard since.
Gardens like that produce a steady supply of green waste, and most of it arrives in bursts: the big hedge trim, the winter prune, the week the street trees drop everything. The green bin can take the lawn clippings. It cannot take a trailer load of privet, so the rest sits in a heap down the side of the house until someone books green waste removal in Essendon and has it gone.
A lot of Essendon front gardens are framed by a hedge, and a hedge that is trimmed properly twice a year throws off more cuttings than people expect. Box, privet, photinia and pittosporum all come back fast, and once they have been let go for a season they need a hard cut to get them back to shape.
Out the back it is usually climbers on the fence, fruit trees that need pruning, and shrubs that have grown into the neighbour’s yard. Ross takes the lot, whether it is one big pile or a few smaller heaps around the garden.
The catch with older Essendon houses is access. Plenty of them sit close to the boundary on one side with a narrow path on the other, or have a back yard that is only reachable through a single side gate. There is rarely room to drive anything in.
That is not a problem, it just takes longer. Ross parks the trailer on the street, carries it out by hand and sweeps the path and footpath when he is finished. If you mention the gate width and how far it is from the back fence to the street, the price will be right the first time.
Many Essendon streets are lined with big deciduous trees, and a good number of gardens have their own. From about April onwards they come down in layers, filling gutters, blocking drains and smothering lawns and garden beds.
One raking session can fill a green bin twice over. Rather than feeding it through the bin for a month, you can rake it into a pile and have it collected in one go with whatever else needs to go from the garden.
A fair bit of work in Essendon comes from houses changing hands. An older owner moving on, a deceased estate being tidied for sale, or a garden that needs to look presentable before photos are taken for the auction.
Once the overgrowth has been cut back and the beds weeded, Ross loads up the garden waste and takes it away so the place looks cared for. He only takes green waste, so the hard rubbish and furniture need to go another way.
The deciduous trees across Essendon let go from April through to June, and that is when everyone’s side path fills up with leaves and winter pruning at the same time. If you have a hedge to trim or a garden to cut back, getting in early in autumn means the pickup happens when you want it, not three weeks later.
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.
