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The best...leaf-management tools

The Gardex Leaf Scoops were designed by someone who used to pick up leaves with a pair of garbage can lids.

Gardex Leaf Scoops
The designer of these oversize “sporks” used to pick up leaf piles with a pair of garbage can lids. “The eureka moment came when he carved teeth into the faces.” Leaf Scoops can pick up objects as small as acorns.
$7, acehardware.com
Source: Popular Mechanics

Snake Rake
This twisted yard tool “uses offset handles to save a raker’s back.” The lightweight shaft is height-adjustable, so every user can stand up straight, and a clip allows a quick pivot of the grip from right- to left-handed.
$40, snakerake.com
Source: Popular Mechanics

Worx TriVac
Looking to purchase a leaf vacuum, a blower, and a mulcher? This device from Worx “effectively combines all three.” A simple switch controls the different modes, “and the same impeller that moves the air chews up the leaves.”
$90, worxtools.com
Source:
Popular Mechanics

Jet Sweep TB 672
This Troy-Bilt leaf blower produces 1,000 cubic feet of air per minute and wind speeds of 150 mph. A “typhoon on wheels,” it won’t just clear your yard of leaves, it’ll “blow them clear over to the next county.”
$400, troybilt.com
Source: FoxNews.com

Leaf Lugger
Eliminate the hassle of multiple bags. The nylon-mesh sides of this 8-by-8-foot super tarp “cinch up via an internal rope to haul up to 100 pounds.” Fiberglass stiffeners keep the tarp flat while you’re raking leaves onto it.
$50, leaflugger.com
Source: Popular Mechanic

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