The far end of the Puffing Billy line, where the blocks get bigger and the bush gets thicker. Ross clears it 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 Gembrook 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.
Fallen timber and prunings from bush acreage.
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 township gardens and weekenders.
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.
Fuel cleared from around houses and sheds.
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.
Storm timber collected from bush blocks.
Gembrook is the eastern terminus of Puffing Billy, a small township in Cardinia Shire surrounded by forest, farmland and bush acreage. Bunyip State Park is not far to the east, and many properties back onto thick bush.
Bush blocks produce a steady supply of fallen timber, bark and leaf litter, and many owners also have house gardens and paddocks to maintain. Ross provides green waste pickup in Gembrook, loading by hand and taking the material to a green waste facility.
On a Gembrook bush block, fallen branches and bark build up quickly, especially after storms. Clearing around the house and along driveways is an ongoing job.
Ross loads fallen timber by hand, along with bark, leaves and any garden waste. He can take several loads from larger properties.
It helps to be realistic about scale. Ross works with a trailer and his own two hands, not a forestry crew, so the focus is on the zone that matters — around the house, sheds, tanks and along the driveway — rather than clearing every stick from the back of a twenty-acre block.
Gembrook township has smaller blocks with established gardens, and a number of properties are weekenders or rentals. Gardens can get away when owners aren't there often.
Ross can do clean-ups from photos and access details, without anyone needing to be on site.
Gembrook is in one of the higher-risk areas in Cardinia Shire. Clearing fine fuel — bark, leaves, dead growth — from around the house before summer is essential.
Ross removes the fuel from the property entirely, and takes it all in the one visit.
Out here, a pile of dry prunings left beside the woodshed through December is about the worst thing you can have near the house. Getting it loaded and driven away is quicker and safer than waiting for the burn-off season to come back around.
Cardinia Shire Council issues fire prevention notices ahead of summer. Get your block cleared in spring, before the Fire Danger Period and the end-of-year rush.
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.
