Beach houses, older weatherboards and units a few streets back from the sand, with gardens that run wild on sandy soil if you turn your back.
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 Seaford 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.
Coastal shrub and hedge trimmings.
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 beach houses and unit courtyards.
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 growth cleared from larger back 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.
Cypress and pine limbs after a blow off the bay.
Seaford runs along the bay between Carrum and Frankston, with the foreshore reserve on one side, Kananook Creek winding through, and the Seaford Wetlands further inland. The housing is a mix: modest older weatherboards and brick homes, holiday-style places near the beach, and a growing number of units and townhouses on subdivided blocks.
Gardens here deal with salt air, wind and sandy soil. Coastal shrubs and hedges grow thick and woody, weeds love the free-draining ground, and old cypress and pines drop needles and branches. When the pile gets too big for the bin, Ross does the green waste pickup and takes it away.
Coastal gardens in Seaford lean on hardy plants — coastal rosemary, tea-tree, pittosporum and succulents. Most of them need a firm cut every year or two or they sprawl across paths and fences.
Sandy ground also lets couch and weeds creep through beds and gravel. A spring session of cutting and weeding tends to leave a heap that is well past bin size.
Older Seaford homes often have a big back yard that's been let go, while the newer units have small courtyards and shared driveways. Both can be awkward in their own way — one for volume, the other for access.
Ross loads by hand either way. For units, a quick note about the shared driveway and where the pile is saves time on the day.
Seaford is exposed to strong winds, and the old cypress and pine trees in many back yards drop limbs regularly. After a big change there can be branches across the lawn, the car and the fence.
Ross collects what has come down and takes it away. If a tree is split or leaning, get an arborist to assess it first — and check with Frankston City Council about permits before any tree comes out.
Seaford gets busy once summer arrives. Spring is the time to get the yard sorted — before the heat, before the holiday guests and before everyone wants the same weekend booked.
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.
