Neat front gardens, tall hedges and back yards that fill up with prunings. Ross takes the green waste away so the bin can go back to handling 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 Mill Park 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, palms and shrub 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.
Family yards cleared before a sale.
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.
Dead shrubs and dry prunings removed.
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 off backyard and street trees.
Mill Park was mostly built from the late 1970s through to the 1990s, as Melbourne’s northern suburbs pushed out along Plenty Road. It is family territory: brick veneer houses, many with double garages, on blocks laid out in crescents and courts, with neat front lawns and a back yard for the kids and the dog.
The gardens tend to be well kept, but they are big enough to produce plenty of waste — hedges along the front boundary, palms and conifers planted when the house was new, and a lot of shrubs in the back beds. Green waste removal in Mill Park is mostly about moving that bulk when the green bin can’t.
A lot of Mill Park gardens still have the plants that went in when the house was built. Conifers that were cute at a metre tall are now at the gutter line. Palms have outgrown the front bed. Box hedges have become walls.
Reducing or removing that kind of growth is a big job, and the offcuts are dense and heavy. Ross collects the offcuts and loads the lot.
Many Mill Park homes are going to market after thirty or forty years with the same owners. A tidy garden makes a real difference to how a house photographs, and buyers notice an overgrown yard straight away.
Once the beds are cleared and the hedges and shrubs trimmed back, a pre-sale pickup takes all the green waste away in one go, so the yard is ready for the photographer.
For a lot of families, the garden gets done in bursts — a big weekend in spring, another before Christmas. A regular green waste collection timed to those weekends means the pile goes the same week instead of sitting on the side of the house.
Ross doesn’t lock anyone into a schedule. Book each pickup when you need it.
November and December are busy in Mill Park — hedges have had their spring growth, the garden needs to look decent for family gatherings, and everyone’s trying to get it done at once. Get the cut-back done and book the pickup for October or early November if you can.
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.
