A valley township on the Yarra flats with rural blocks around it. Ross clears the prunings, clippings and fallen limbs that pile up here.
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 Yarra Glen 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.
Township garden prunings and hedge cuts.
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.
Rural blocks with gardens that got away.
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.
Clippings and dry litter 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.
Limbs down after storms across the flats.
Yarra Glen is a small township on the Melba Highway, set on the flats near the Yarra River with hills rising behind it. The town itself has a mix of older houses and newer homes on decent blocks, and it's surrounded by vineyards, grazing land and lifestyle properties.
The township gardens produce the usual prunings and leaves, while the rural blocks around town add grass, windbreak trimmings and fallen branches. Ross does green waste removal in Yarra Glen for both, loading by hand and taking everything away.
Within the township, most blocks are easy to reach and have gardens with a mix of exotic and native plants. Spring pruning and autumn leaf fall are the main times for a green waste pickup.
Ross backs the trailer in, loads the pile and sweeps up. For newer homes, he can also take the waste from a garden being established or landscaped.
Outside the township, the country is open and grassy, with big gums and shelter plantings. Grass grows fast after rain and dries hard over summer.
Ross can take away grass clippings, branches and prunings from around the house and sheds in the same trip.
Properties with horses or stock often have paddock fences overgrown with weeds and fallen limbs from shade trees. Collecting the fallen limbs and pulled weeds, with the gates shut behind him, is a routine job.
The hills around Yarra Glen carry a real bushfire risk, and the grassy flats can burn quickly in summer. Clearing dry material and cutting grass before the Fire Danger Period is important.
Low-lying ground near the river can also go under after heavy rain, leaving debris and making access difficult. If ground is waterlogged, Ross may need to wait until it dries or carry from higher ground.
Spring growth on the flats is fast, and the Fire Danger Period usually arrives as soon as it dries off. Book early in the season to get ahead of it.
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.
