Well-kept family homes, tidy front gardens and long hedges that need regular trimming. Ross takes away the garden waste across Keilor East so the bin can go back to lawn clippings.
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 Keilor 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.
Hedge trimmings and prunings from tidy 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.
Seasonal tidy-ups for owners who cannot get to it.
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 removed from beds and fence lines.
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 established garden trees removed.
Keilor East is a settled, established suburb. Most of its houses went up in the decades after the war, and a lot of them have been extended or rebuilt since. Front gardens tend to be neat and well cared for, often with clipped hedges, standard roses and a lawn out the front.
Keeping a garden like that neat produces a constant trickle of green waste, with a few big spikes through the year. The hedge gets its main trim, the roses are pruned in winter, a shrub is taken out to make room for something new. Those are the times people book a green waste pickup rather than filling the bin for weeks.
Clipped hedges are a big part of the Keilor East streetscape. Box, lilly pilly, murraya and conifer hedges look sharp when they are kept in shape, but a proper trim of a long hedge can produce a surprising pile of cuttings.
Ross collects the trimmings after you or your gardener have done the work, and takes them away in one visit.
Many Keilor East homes have been in the same family for a long time, and owners who have kept a tidy garden for decades sometimes find the heavier jobs getting harder. Cutting back a big shrub or carting a pile of prunings to the tip is not what it used to be.
Booking a green waste pickup a few times a year takes the heavy lifting off their hands, with the prunings loaded up and carted away for them. Family members can book it on their behalf, too.
Most Keilor East blocks have a driveway, and many have a garage or carport at the side or the back. Access is usually straightforward, but some extended homes leave only a narrow path between the house and the fence.
Ross will carry the waste out as needed and sweep up the drive and footpath before he leaves, so the front garden looks as neat as it did before.
In Keilor East the biggest single load of the year often comes in July and August, when the roses and fruit trees are pruned and the hedges get a tidy before spring. Book the green waste collection for the end of winter and the garden starts spring clean.
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.
