Richmond gardens are small and hemmed in by walls, but ivy, bamboo and climbers love it. Ross takes away what comes down, carrying the waste through the hallway or the back lane.
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 Richmond 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.
Ivy, bamboo and courtyard climbers.
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.
Terrace gardens cleared for sale or lease.
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 leaves and dead growth cleared from yards.
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 from street and garden trees after storms.
Richmond is one of Melbourne's oldest inner suburbs, and a lot of it is Victorian terraces and workers' cottages on narrow blocks. Front gardens are often just a few square metres behind an iron fence, and the back is a courtyard bounded by brick walls and a rear laneway.
Those gardens are small, but sheltered, walled spaces are perfect for fast growers. Ivy climbs every wall, bamboo spreads through the beds, and climbers take over pergolas and fences. Getting the waste out is the hard part, which is why people call Ross.
Ivy on a Richmond terrace wall can be decades old, thick and heavy, and it comes off in big mats. Running bamboo spreads under paving and fences, and clumping bamboo turns into a dense thicket. Both produce awkward, bulky waste that won't fit in a bin.
Ross clears what you or your gardener have pulled down or cut, and takes it all away.
Getting a trailer near a Richmond terrace takes some planning. Streets are narrow, parking is tight and often permit-only, and a lot of houses have no side access at all.
Many homes back onto bluestone laneways, which is often the easiest way out. If not, Ross carries it through the house with drop sheets down. It's slower, and priced to match.
Richmond has plenty of mature street trees and deciduous trees in neighbouring yards. Come autumn, the leaves pile up in courtyards, block drains and fill every corner.
An autumn green waste pickup clears the courtyard in one go and keeps the drains flowing through winter.
Richmond courtyards collect leaves from every tree in the street through autumn, and wet leaf litter turns into a slippery mess by June. Book an autumn clean-up in April or May to clear it before the wet sets in.
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.
