Rolling foothill country with berry farms, vines and houses on a few acres. Ross takes away the green waste that builds up on Seville properties.
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 Seville 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.
Vine, berry and fruit tree cuttings on small farms.
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 that have run wild on acreage.
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 heaps and long grass near the house.
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 off roadside and paddock gums.
Seville sits on the Warburton Highway in the rolling country between Wandin and Woori Yallock, looking out over the Yarra Valley. It is a small township ringed by berry growers, vineyards and hobby farms, and most people here live on land rather than a suburban block.
On a few acres, garden waste doesn't come in bin-sized amounts. There are vines and canes to cut back, old fruit trees, a house garden that has spread well past the fence, and gums dropping limbs across the paddock. Ross does green waste removal in Seville for owners who want the heaps gone rather than waiting on a burn-off permit and the right weather.
A lot of Seville properties grow something — a few rows of grapes, raspberry canes, a home orchard or a vegetable patch the size of a tennis court. Each of those has its own pruning season, and the cuttings tend to go into a heap behind the shed and stay there.
Ross loads the lot: woody cuttings, old canes, spent vegetable plants and garden prunings in one trip. Thorny material like blackberry or rose canes is fine too, as long as he knows it is in the pile.
Seville is hilly. Driveways often climb from the highway or a side road, and farm tracks can be steep, rutted or slippery after rain. A loaded trailer needs somewhere solid to sit.
Tell Ross where the heaps are and what the track is like, and he'll plan the route. If the trailer can't get down to the bottom paddock safely, he'll bring it as close as the ground allows and carry the rest.
A pruning pile that sits through spring turns into perfect fuel by January. On a Seville property with grass all around it, that heap is the last thing you want near the house or hay shed when the Fire Danger Period is in force.
Removing the heaps in spring is the simplest fix, and Ross can take every one of them in a single visit.
Once the Fire Danger Period is declared in the Yarra Ranges, burning the pile is no longer a simple option. Get the winter pruning heaps collected in September or October while the grass is still green.
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.
