Tarneit gardens are young, but they're past the just-planted stage now. Ross takes away the hedge trimmings, grass cuttings and weeds that a growing estate garden throws up.
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 Tarneit 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.
Screen hedges and trimmings from new homes.
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.
Weedy yards and neglected rentals sorted out.
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 clippings loaded and hauled away.
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.
Branches from young street and yard trees.
Tarneit has grown from paddocks to one of the biggest suburbs in Wyndham in a short time. Almost every home is modern, on a compact lot, with a front garden put in by the builder or the first owner and a back yard of lawn, paving and fence-line plantings.
Those gardens are now at the age where things start needing real work. The screening plants along the fences have hit full height, weeds have moved into beds that were never mulched properly, and the lawn has crept into every edge. Ross does the green waste pickup when a weekend of catching up leaves more than the bin can take.
When a Tarneit house was new, the garden was a few small plants in fresh mulch. A few years later the screening plants meet in the middle, the grasses have doubled, and the fence line is a solid wall of green.
The first proper cut back usually produces a surprising amount of material. It's soft and leafy but bulky, and it fills a green bin in minutes.
A lot of Tarneit homes are investment properties, and gardens are often neglected between tenants. Weeds take over quickly in the open, sunny yards, and a vacant house can look run-down in a single season.
Ross can clear the green waste from an overgrown rental yard in one visit and work directly with the owner or the property manager to fit around inspections and move-in dates.
Tarneit is flat and open, with vacant blocks and grassland still around the edges of many estates. Summers are hot and dry, and long grass and dead growth in back yards dry off quickly.
Ross can load up cut grass and dry garden waste and take it all away in one visit, so the yard goes into summer tidy.
Tarneit gardens grow fastest from September to November, and that's also when weeds shoot up in every bed and crack. Book in spring and the yard is under control before the heat dries everything out.
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.
