Bigger houses on bigger blocks, some of them on acreage. Ross clears the prunings, grass and fallen branches 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 Greenvale 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.
Bulk prunings from bigger 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.
Acreage gardens and large yards 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.
Grass and litter cleared around 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.
Big limbs off mature trees, hauled away.
Greenvale has more room than most of the north. Alongside newer estates there are established streets of large family homes on big blocks, and rural-residential properties on acreage out toward the Greenvale Reservoir. Melbourne Airport is not far to the west, and much of the surrounding country is open and grassy.
Big blocks generate a lot of garden waste. Long driveways lined with trees, large lawns, hedges around the boundary and plenty of shrubs in the beds all need cutting back. Ross provides bulk green waste removal for Greenvale properties, loading it by hand and taking it to be mulched.
On an acreage block, the green waste doesn’t come in bags. It is branches from windbreak trees, prunings from a long hedge line, dead shrubs, and piles that have been building up behind the shed for a couple of years.
Ross brings the trailer to the pile where he can and loads it by hand. On bigger jobs, he may need more than one trip — he’ll tell you up front.
Greenvale properties next to open country have to deal with grass in a big way. Spring rain pushes it up quickly, and by summer it is dry and flammable.
Once the grass has been cut, Ross can take the cuttings away as part of a clean-up. That’s handy on larger blocks, where there is far more than a green bin could ever hold.
Rural-residential blocks around Greenvale carry more fire risk than the tighter suburban streets. The CFA declares a Fire Danger Period each year, and burning off isn’t an option once it starts.
A fire-season clean-up means taking away the cut grass, litter and dead growth gathered from around the house and sheds, rather than leaving a heap on the property.
Grass on Greenvale’s bigger blocks can go from lush to dry in a few weeks of hot weather. Book the clean-up for October or early November, before the Fire Danger Period is declared and every acreage owner in the area wants the same thing done.
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.
