Large estate gardens, tall hedges and mature trees behind high walls. Ross collects Toorak's garden waste quietly, by hand, and leaves everything swept.
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 Toorak 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.
Estate gardens, tall hedges and screens.
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.
Clean-up waste from large gardens, collected.
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, dead material cleared before 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.
Fallen limbs from large, mature trees.
Toorak has some of the largest private gardens in inner Melbourne. Behind high walls and electric gates there are formal lawns, clipped hedges three or four metres tall, mature exotic trees and planting that takes a team to maintain. The Yarra forms the suburb's northern edge, and the shops of Toorak Village sit along Toorak Road.
Gardens on that scale produce a constant flow of clippings and prunings, well beyond what a council bin can take. Ross provides regular and one-off green waste removal in Toorak, working around the household, the gardeners and the gates.
Privacy is a big part of Toorak gardens, and it usually comes from hedges — lilly pilly, pittosporum, viburnum, murraya and box, sometimes several rows deep. Trimming them properly produces a lot of material, much of it fine.
Ross collects the clippings after each trim, whether the gardener has done the cutting or it's a one-off reduction of a hedge that has got too tall.
Most Toorak properties have secure gates and staff or a property manager who handles trades. Ross can arrange access however suits — a gate code, a key, a meeting time or coordination with the gardener.
He works quietly, keeps the trailer clear of neighbours' driveways, and leaves paths, drives and gravel swept.
Big oaks, elms, planes and other old trees shade many Toorak gardens. They drop heavy leaf loads every autumn and the odd limb in strong wind.
Ross removes fallen branches and leaf litter. Any work on the trees themselves is for a qualified arborist, and Stonnington City Council protects many significant trees.
Toorak gardens tend to run on a calendar: hedge trims in spring and late summer, leaf clean-ups in autumn and pruning in winter. Booking a pickup to follow each of those keeps the green waste from building up at the back of the property.
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.
