Deep backyards full of fruit trees, grapevines and veggie beds. Ross takes away the prunings and garden waste that St Albans backyards produce every winter.
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 St Albans 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.
Fruit tree and vine prunings after winter.
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.
Productive backyards cleared when owners move on.
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 spent crops cleared for summer.
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.
Old fruit tree limbs that have split and dropped.
St Albans grew rapidly after the war, and much of its housing dates from the 1950s and 1960s, on big blocks with deep backyards. For a lot of families those backyards were for growing food, and many still have fruit trees, grapevines over pergolas and large vegetable beds.
A productive garden like that creates a lot of green waste. Every winter the trees and vines are pruned, and every autumn the spent veggie plants come out. More recently, many older homes have been replaced by units, and the original gardens need clearing first. Either way, a lot of bulk green waste passes through St Albans backyards.
Figs, lemons, apricots, plums, olives and grapevines are common in St Albans yards. A good winter prune keeps them productive, but it leaves big piles of cuttings, and vine and fig wood is bulky and awkward to fit in a bin.
Ross can collect the prunings once you have finished, or come back each winter so the pile never gets out of hand.
When an older St Albans home is sold, the garden often has decades of growth in it. Old fruit trees, sheds covered in vines and garden beds full of spent plants all need to be cleared before a sale or redevelopment.
Ross clears the green material and takes it away. Hard rubbish, old timber structures and building material need to be handled separately.
Many of the original St Albans blocks are long and narrow, with the orchard and veggie beds right at the back. The trailer might be thirty or forty metres from the pile, with a driveway, carport and side gate in between.
That is fine. Ross barrows or carries the load out and tidies up as he goes. Photos of the route help him give an accurate price.
For St Albans backyards, the big pile of the year comes in July and August, once the fruit trees and vines have been pruned. Book a green waste collection for late winter and the prunings are gone before spring growth starts.
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.
