Plenty is acreage country: lifestyle blocks, horse properties and big old trees. Ross clears the branches, prunings and fire fuel they leave behind.
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 Plenty 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.
Big piles off lifestyle and horse blocks.
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.
House gardens on acreage tidied up.
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.
Fuel reduced around homes and 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.
Limbs gathered from paddocks and drives.
Plenty is a semi-rural suburb on the western edge of Nillumbik, running out toward the Plenty Gorge. There's very little in the way of suburban streets. Instead there are lifestyle properties of several acres, many with horses, paddocks, sheds and a house set well back from the road among mature trees.
Properties like that make green waste on a different scale. Branches drop into paddocks, fence lines get choked with growth, and the garden around the house needs a regular cut-back. Ross brings his trailer out, gathers it up, loads it and takes it off for green waste disposal.
On a property this size the pile is rarely in one spot. It might be limbs spread along a fence line, a heap of cut wattle near the stables and prunings from the house garden, all to go in one job.
Ross collects from wherever it is, as long as the ground is safe to work on, and packs everything tightly into the trailer. Larger jobs may take more than one load. That's worked out before he starts.
Plenty sits on the bush edge, and fire preparation is a real part of owning land here. The CFA declares a Fire Danger Period for the district each year and Nillumbik Shire Council issues fire prevention notices to properties that need work.
The area immediately around the house and outbuildings matters most. Ross picks up leaf and bark litter, dead shrubs and old prunings from that zone and takes it all away.
Access on Plenty properties is usually good, but there are often gates, animals and soft ground to think about. Let Ross know if horses need to be moved or if some areas get boggy after rain.
Photos of the material and the route to it help with an accurate price. Where the trailer can drive right up to the pile, the job goes much faster.
Around Plenty, the grass grows hard in spring and dries off fast. Book your clean-up for October, so the litter and piles are dealt with together 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.
