Quiet, heavily treed streets and gardens that have been growing for decades. Ross takes away the leaves, prunings and branches from Mont Albert yards.
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 Mont Albert 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.
Leaves and prunings from heavily treed yards.
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.
Cut-back material from long-established gardens.
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 leaves and dry growth 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 from the big canopy trees.
Mont Albert is a small, quiet suburb between Balwyn and Box Hill, and one of the leafiest pockets on this side of the city. Streets are lined with big trees, and the housing — mostly Edwardian, interwar and postwar homes with a sprinkling of newer builds — sits in gardens that have had a long time to fill out.
The canopy is what people love about the place, and it's also what fills the green bin. Leaves, twigs, bark and branches come down steadily, on top of the usual hedges and shrubs. Ross provides green waste removal in Mont Albert for when the pile gets ahead of you.
Mont Albert gardens often have a few very large trees — old oaks, elms, liquidambars and eucalypts — shading lawns and beds. Underneath, leaf litter builds up, grass struggles and garden beds get smothered.
Clearing that material regularly keeps the garden healthy. Ross collects it from beds and lawns, and takes it away with anything else that's been cut.
Many Mont Albert homes have been in the same hands for a long time, and some owners aren't up to the heavy work any more. A garden that was once immaculate can get away from you quickly.
Ross does straightforward, tidy clean-ups: collecting whatever has been cut back or pulled from the beds and taking everything away. Family members can arrange it on behalf of a parent, and he'll send photos afterwards.
With so many large trees, fallen branches are part of life in Mont Albert. A limb on the lawn, across the path or over the fence is a common call.
Ross collects what's down and removes it. If the tree itself looks damaged, he'll recommend getting an arborist in first, and Whitehorse City Council may need to be consulted.
Mont Albert's trees start dropping in April and some don't finish until July. Rather than filling the green bin every fortnight for three months, book a pickup mid-season and another once the branches are bare.
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.
