Monbulk mixes a small town with rural and nursery country. Ross clears green waste from town blocks and acreage alike, and hauls 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 Monbulk 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 town blocks and small acreage.
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.
Overgrown paddock edges and old garden beds.
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 debris and old heaps removed before 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 down along fence lines and driveways.
Monbulk is a working hills town, with a main street of shops surrounded by nurseries, flower growers and small farms. The houses in town sit on decent-sized blocks, while those on the outskirts are often small acreage with paddocks, windbreaks and long fence lines.
That mix produces a lot of green waste. Windbreak trees drop branches, paddock edges get overgrown with blackberry, and bigger gardens need regular cutting back. Ross provides green waste collections in Monbulk — pruning piles, overgrown corners and storm debris loaded by hand and taken away.
On a rural property, green waste often accumulates in several places — along the fence lines, around the house, under the windbreaks. Owners might plan to burn it, but restrictions and weather often get in the way, and the piles keep growing.
Ross can collect from multiple spots on the property, provided the trailer can get close or he can carry to it. Paddock access should be dry and firm enough for the vehicle.
Not every Monbulk job is on acreage. Houses in and around town have established gardens with the same mix of exotic and native plants as the rest of the hills, and the same problem of producing more than the bin can hold.
For town blocks, Ross works the same way he does anywhere: back the trailer in, load the pile by hand and sweep up after.
Monbulk is surrounded by forest and farmland, both of which carry bushfire risk. Long grass and piles of dry material around the house and sheds need attention before summer.
Ross can take away the dry material and old pruning piles from around the house and sheds in a single visit.
Burning restrictions and bad weather can leave rural piles sitting all year. Booking a green waste pickup in spring means the fuel is gone before the Fire Danger Period is declared.
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.
