Ivanhoe's period homes come with established hedges, big exotic trees and not much room to move. Ross carries the green waste out 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 Ivanhoe 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.
Hedge and leaf waste from period 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.
Pre-sale presentation and tidy-ups.
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.
Gutters and dry growth cleared 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.
Limbs off big exotic trees cleared.
Ivanhoe is one of Melbourne's older, more established suburbs, set on the hills between the Darebin Creek and the Yarra. Its streets are full of Edwardian, Federation and interwar houses, many with formal front gardens, clipped hedges and big exotic trees that have been growing for the best part of a century.
Gardens like that are high-maintenance. Hedges need regular trims, deciduous trees drop mountains of leaves in autumn, and old trees shed limbs. The council bin isn't built for that scale, so Ross provides green waste removal for Ivanhoe homes, carrying it out by hand and taking it away.
Box, pittosporum, photinia and privet are everywhere in Ivanhoe, and a proper trim of a long hedge fills several bins. The same goes for roses, climbers and the large shrubs that often frame period homes.
Whether your gardener has done the cutting or you have done it yourself, Ross collects the trimmings, loads them into the trailer and sweeps up. It's a clean finish, which matters on a street where gardens are part of the character.
Older houses in Ivanhoe were often built close to their side boundaries, leaving a narrow path down one side and no driveway to the back. Some have steps up from the street, and garages and sheds can block the way.
Ross works with it. He parks the trailer out front and carries or drags material through the side gate. Please mention the access when you enquire, so the price takes it into account.
Oaks, elms, maples and liquidambars are common in Ivanhoe gardens and streets, and their leaves come down in late autumn in big volumes. Old trees also drop limbs in strong winds, sometimes across a path or fence.
Ross clears leaves and fallen branches in the same visit. He doesn't do tree work, though. Damaged or unsafe trees need an arborist, and Banyule City Council may need to approve any removal.
Ivanhoe gardens tend to be at their busiest in late autumn, when the exotic trees lose their leaves, and in the lead-up to a sale, when the front garden needs to look its best for photos and inspections. If either is coming up, book Ross a couple of weeks ahead.
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.
