Screening plants, fast-growing hedges and grass that gets away over spring. Ross loads the green waste by hand and takes it off for recycling.
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 South Morang 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.
Screening plants 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.
Estate yards and rentals 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.
Dry grass and litter near the gorge edge.
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 gums along the reserve edges.
South Morang grew quickly from the 1990s onward, and most of it is estate housing — brick homes on mid-sized and smaller lots, with newer streets still going in toward the north. The Mernda train line runs through it, and the Plenty Gorge Park runs along its eastern side, bringing a strip of bush and open grassland right up to some back fences.
Estate gardens here are typically hedged in by screening plants for privacy — lilly pilly, murraya, photinia, viburnum — which grow fast and need trimming often. Add lawns, garden beds and the grass that spreads in from open land, and a single green bin isn’t close to enough. Ross takes the overflow.
With homes close together, most South Morang gardens rely on screening plants along the fence line. They do the job, but they need a trim two or three times a year, and a hedge that has been left for a season or two throws off a lot of cuttings.
Ross takes the trimmings away in bulk, whether you cut them yourself or have someone else do it.
Houses on the eastern side, backing onto or near the Plenty Gorge Park, get a different mix. Gum leaves, bark and twigs blow in, grass grows up along the back fence, and there’s more of a bushfire and grassfire consideration in summer.
A pickup before summer — once the dry litter is raked up and the long grass cut, Ross takes it and the dead growth away from the house and fences — makes those properties much easier to look after through the hot months.
A good share of South Morang homes are rented, and the garden is often neglected between inspections. Overgrown hedges and knee-high grass can become an issue at the end of a lease.
Ross can clear the green waste between tenants — once the hedges are trimmed and the weeds pulled, he loads the lot and takes it away. Property managers can book it directly.
Grass along South Morang’s eastern edge grows quickly in spring and dries off by December. If you’re near the gorge, get the grass cut, the litter cleared and the cuttings gone by late November, before the Fire Danger Period is declared and the heat 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.
