Newport's family homes often sit on bigger blocks than the suburbs closer in, with long back yards, fruit trees and a shed with a pile behind it. Ross clears the lot.
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 Newport 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.
Long back yards and fruit tree 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.
Deceased estates and long-neglected yards.
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 grass clippings and litter hauled away from sheds.
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.
Big garden tree limbs loaded and hauled away.
Newport has a bit of everything: period cottages near the station, rows of post-war weatherboards and brick houses on proper quarter-acre-style blocks, and newer townhouses slotted in where older homes have been subdivided.
The older, bigger blocks are where the green waste comes from. Long back yards with fruit trees, old hedges, a vegetable patch that's gone to seed, and the pile of prunings that has been growing behind the shed for years. Ross handles bulk green waste as well as the smaller one-off loads.
Many Newport homes have back yards planted by families who have been there for decades. Apricot, plum, lemon and fig trees, grapevines over the carport, and hedges along every boundary. It's a productive, lived-in kind of garden, and it drops a lot of material.
Once those trees get a proper prune, the pile is usually too big for the bin and too much to fit in a car. That's where a trailer and someone to load it makes sense.
Some Newport jobs are about catching up. A deceased estate, a house bought from long-time owners, or a rental that has been left for a few years. The garden is overgrown, the paths have disappeared and nobody is quite sure what's under it all.
Ross loads what's been cut and pulled out, along with the old piles, and takes it away, leaving the yard clear enough to see what you're working with. It's often a single long visit rather than several small ones.
Newport has plenty of open space, including the Newport Lakes reserve, and the leafier streets around it get a fair amount of wind-blown debris after rough weather.
When a limb comes down in your yard, Ross collects what's come down and hauls it away. He doesn't do standing trees; a damaged or leaning tree needs an arborist, and many trees need council approval before they are removed.
Most Newport fruit trees are pruned in winter, and the pile tends to sit until someone gets around to it. Book the pickup for late winter or early spring and it's gone before the new growth starts and the grass comes up through it.
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.
