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All the landscapers use them, and by the time the leaves finally drop here, it's already winter anyway.
We used to be allowed to blow the leaves to the curb in piles, and a large vacuum truck would collect them, but too much of the leaves wound up in the storm drains. I bought a push mower with a leaf catcher and started bagging leaves before they made it mandatory. When I would try to blow the leaves, they always blew back into my face anyway because I had to blow them to the north into the wind. I also have the last maple in my area to keep its leaves on and the oak in my yard still has some of last year's leaves in the spring, they drop so late. I still have only a push mower, but the landscapers have these high velocity blades that mulch the leaves so fine they are essentially turned to dust and it falls down into the grass. The helper spends his time blowing the leaves out of the street onto the grass so that can take place.