Oakleigh back yards grow fruit, vegetables and vines as well as lawns and hedges. When the pruning is done, Ross takes the whole pile 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 Oakleigh 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.
Fruit trees, vines and veggie garden waste.
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.
Older homes and productive gardens cleared.
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.
Summer clean-up of dead growth and dry prunings.
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 old yard trees collected and taken.
Oakleigh is an established suburb centred on Eaton Mall and the station, with a long-standing Greek community and plenty of older houses on good-sized blocks. Many back yards are productive gardens: fruit trees, grapevines, vegetable beds, and sheds with climbers over them.
Productive gardens produce green waste in cycles. Winter pruning of fruit trees and vines, end-of-season vegetable plants, and prunings from hedges and shrubs. When it builds up faster than the bin can take it, green waste removal in Oakleigh clears it in one go.
Figs, lemons, olives, plums and grapevines are common in Oakleigh back yards. Each needs a winter or late-season prune, and older trees can produce a surprising amount of wood.
Ross takes it all — branches, canes and leaves — and loads it by hand. The waste goes to a facility where it is mulched or composted.
When an older Oakleigh home changes hands, the garden often needs a full clean-up. Overgrown trees, vegetable beds gone wild and sheds covered in vines need clearing before the property is sold or renovated.
Ross can clear the green waste in one visit. Anything that is not green waste, like old timber or metal stakes, needs to be removed separately.
Oakleigh has seen a lot of subdivision, with townhouses and units built on former family blocks. These often have small gardens and no space to store green waste.
A regular pickup after each seasonal trim keeps things tidy. Ross carries it out from courtyards and rear units where a trailer cannot get close.
Most fruit trees and vines in Oakleigh are pruned in winter. Booking a pickup in July or August clears the waste before spring growth starts and the vegetable garden needs replanting.
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.
