A country town with forest on three sides. Ross clears prunings, bark and fallen limbs from Healesville gardens and hauls 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 Healesville 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 from established town 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.
Clean-up waste from holiday homes and rentals, collected.
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.
Forest-edge 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.
Limbs dropped by big gums on town streets.
Healesville is a proper country town at the northern end of the Yarra Valley, surrounded by forested ranges and known well beyond Melbourne for Healesville Sanctuary. The town centre has older weatherboard houses on generous blocks, while the edges of town run up into the bush.
The gardens reflect the mix. In town there are big old exotic trees, fruit trees and cottage gardens; on the fringe, gums and wattles lean over the fence and drop bark and branches all year. Ross provides green waste removal in Healesville for both, loading by hand and taking the load for proper green waste disposal.
Many Healesville houses are decades old and so are their gardens. Big deciduous shade trees, overgrown fruit trees and big hedges are common, and they produce heaps of leaves and prunings every season.
Ross takes those heaps in one visit. A flat town block is usually easy to reach from the street, which keeps the job quick.
Plenty of Healesville properties are weekenders, short-stay rentals or long-term rentals. When the owner isn't around much, the garden can get away quickly, and a big tidy-up before summer or before a sale is often needed.
Ross works from photos and gate codes, so the owner doesn't need to drive up for the day. He'll send a photo of the finished job.
Healesville is surrounded by forest, and the blocks on the edge of town are directly on the bushfire interface. Bark, leaves and dead growth built up around the house and under decks are the main concern.
A fire season clean-up clears those areas and removes everything from the property. Ross loads it all, bark and leaves included, in the same visit.
Healesville summers get hot, and the Fire Danger Period is usually in force well before Christmas. Book a spring clean-up so the fuel is gone before the heat arrives.
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.
