Larger homes, sloping streets and gardens full of natives on the edge of Jells Park. Ross clears Wheelers Hill garden waste 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 Wheelers Hill 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.
Natives and prunings from larger blocks.
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.
Big gardens on sloping streets tidied.
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 leaf litter and dead growth removed.
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 gum limbs picked up and removed.
Wheelers Hill is one of Monash's newer suburbs, mostly built from the seventies onwards. Homes are larger, streets curve around the hills and into courts, and Jells Park and the Dandenong Creek corridor border the suburb, giving it a greener, more open feel than much of the area.
Gardens here tend to be generous and planted with a lot of natives, plus hedges and feature trees around the house. Natives shed constantly and need regular cutting back. When the pile outgrows the bin, Ross provides green waste removal in Wheelers Hill, loading it by hand and taking it away.
Many Wheelers Hill homes sit on courts and curving streets, often on sloping land with long driveways up or down to the house. Access is usually good, but the distance from the back yard to the street can be long.
Ross brings the trailer as close as he can, loads by hand and sweeps the driveway on the way out.
Eucalypts, wattles, bottlebrush and grevilleas are common in Wheelers Hill gardens. They drop bark, leaves and small branches throughout the year and grow leggy if they're not cut back.
A regular green waste pickup — after pruning and once the litter has built up — keeps things under control without filling the bin every week.
With plenty of large eucalypts around, fallen branches are common after a windy spell. Ross loads them onto the trailer and removes them.
If a tree looks unstable or a limb is still hanging, get a qualified arborist first. Monash City Council has rules about removing some trees.
Leaf litter and bark build up under Wheelers Hill's natives through winter and spring. Clear it out in October or November so the garden is tidy for summer and the gutters aren't full when the first hot days arrive.
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.
