Family homes and newer townhouses around Knox all have gardens that need cutting back. Ross collects the garden waste and takes it away 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 Wantirna South 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.
Garden offcuts from homes around Knox.
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.
Yards tidied before sale or a new lease.
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 growth cleared ahead of hot weather.
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.
Storm-damaged limbs loaded and removed.
Wantirna South is centred on the Knox shopping precinct, with family housing spread out around it. A lot of the streets date from the 1970s and 1980s, but there has been plenty of redevelopment since, with townhouses and units replacing some of the older houses. The Dandenong Creek corridor forms the western edge.
Whether it's a big family garden or a narrow townhouse strip, the green waste builds up the same way — hedges trimmed, shrubs cut back, leaves raked, and the bin full within a day. For the bigger jobs, a green waste collection saves filling the car and queuing at a transfer station.
The established homes in Wantirna South have proper gardens: lawns front and back, garden beds along the fences, a couple of trees, and usually a hedge somewhere. They aren't huge, but they grow steadily, and a big prune fills a trailer faster than people expect.
Ross comes out after you've done the cutting, or when the pile has been building for a while, and clears it in one go. The driveway and lawn get swept before he leaves.
Newer townhouses in Wantirna South often have tight side paths, small courtyards and shared driveways. The gardens are smaller, but there's often nowhere to store a pile of prunings while you wait for bin day.
Ross takes small loads as well as big ones, and he'll carry material out through a narrow path without making a mess of the neighbours' driveway.
A tidy garden makes a real difference to how a property presents, and in a suburb with this much turnover, a pre-sale or end-of-lease clean-up is a common job. Once the overgrowth is cut back, the dead plants are out and the leaves are raked up, the last step is getting it all taken away.
Let Ross know when the photos or the inspection are booked and he'll make sure the garden waste is gone in time.
Spring and early summer storms can bring down branches right across Knox. If a limb is lying across your Wantirna South yard, book the pickup straight away — once a storm has been through, a lot of people need the same help in the same week.
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.
