Renovated period homes, small back yards and hedges out the front. Ross takes away the clippings, prunings and leaves from Hawthorn East gardens.
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 Hawthorn East 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.
Front hedges and back-yard 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.
Clearing gardens during renovations.
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, dead material cleared before the heat.
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.
Wind-blown limbs loaded and removed.
Hawthorn East sits between Hawthorn and Camberwell, running out to Burke Road. It's mostly Victorian and Edwardian houses — many extended or renovated — on blocks that are narrower than further east, with established street trees and hedges along the front fences.
Renovations are a constant here, and the garden often gets pushed around in the process. Plants are pulled out, hedges are cut back to make room for scaffolding and the back yard ends up full of cuttings. Ross provides garden waste removal for that, plus pickups after the regular hedge trims and leaf fall in between.
When an extension goes on, the back garden usually comes out first. Shrubs, lawns, old fruit trees and hedges need clearing so the builder can get in.
Ross takes the green part of that job. The builder's skip is for building waste; the garden material can go for recycling separately, which is often cheaper than filling a skip with it.
Many Hawthorn East homes have a clipped hedge behind the front fence for privacy — lilly pilly, murraya, box or photinia. They need trimming every few months, and each trim leaves a pile of clippings on the footpath and in the garden.
Ross can collect the clippings after you've trimmed, or take them away after a bigger reduction if the hedge has got away from you.
With smaller back yards, there's often nowhere to hide a pruning pile. It sits on the lawn, kills the grass underneath and gets in the way.
A quick pickup gets it off the property. Even a small load is worth booking if it's taking up space you need.
If renovation work is starting soon, get the garden cleared a week or two beforehand. The builder gets clean access, and the green waste goes for recycling instead of taking up space in the skip.
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.
