The New York Times - Leaves will fall

Fall foliage is stunning … until it’s underfoot. Sometime soon, the leaves once painting your sightline in brilliant hues of orange and red will fall, darken, decay, and transform into a slippery carpet blanketing your backyard. Enter: The leaf blower.

Leaf blowers have reputations as loud, fume-spewing wastes of fuel—but newer models offer plenty of power without those drawbacks.

Most folks should start their search by considering a corded leaf blower like our top pick, the best blower we’ve found in our nearly 10 years of researching and testing in the woods of New Hampshire. It’s sort of like an air bazooka.

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