Highett is part Bayside, part Kingston, and mostly family homes with good-sized back yards. Ross clears the green waste those yards produce.
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 Highett 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.
Back-yard prunings and hedge trimmings.
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.
Family gardens and rentals tidied up.
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 growth and leaf build-up gone for summer.
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.
Branches from old yard trees collected and cleared.
Highett sits inland from Hampton and Sandringham, split between Bayside and Kingston councils, with the Frankston line and Highett station near its centre. It is mostly post-war family homes on good blocks, with plenty of subdivision into units and townhouses over the years.
The original gardens are established: fruit trees, hedges, big shrubs and lawns. Newer townhouses have smaller, low-maintenance plantings that still need trimming. Either way, when the green bin is full and the pile keeps growing, green waste removal in Highett clears it in one trip.
Highett’s older homes often have gardens planted in the 1950s and 60s. Fruit trees, hedges and shrubs have had decades to grow, and a full cut-back produces a big pile.
Ross loads it all by hand and takes it to a green waste facility. Grass clippings and pulled weeds can go on the same load.
With so much subdivision, many Highett properties share a driveway or have no vehicle access to the back. Green waste has to be carried out by hand.
Ross does that routinely. Let him know about shared driveways so the trailer does not block neighbours.
Because Highett is split between Bayside and Kingston, rules about tree permits and bin services can differ depending on which side of the boundary you are on.
For tree removal, check with whichever council covers your street first — many trees need a permit — and get a qualified arborist for anything standing. Ross only removes green waste that is already cut or on the ground, but he will happily come back once the tree work is done and clear the mess.
Highett gardens grow fast in spring. Getting the cut-back done and the waste removed by November leaves the yard ready for summer, before the December 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.
