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And it’s about being able to use it all day. Battery life will be a concern, though most of these tools have swappable batteries so they can just carry as many as they need on the truck.

More fundamentally… why did we stop using rakes? Once the leaves are more than a few inches deep, blowers become ineffective. Rakes keep working.

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Where I live they use them to blow leaves, debris, and trash off of a parking lot.

Maybe not a rake, but a broom would be a welcome change. And honestly not much slower.

> a broom would be a welcome change. And honestly not much slower

Having used both brooms and a blower to sweep out my garage, a blower is exponentially faster.

A blower blasts all the crap on your garage floor into the air, and you're now breathing it. A broom does that a little bit also, but not nearly as much.

If you get a wide shop broom, it makes pretty quick work of a garage floor, and gives your arms a little bit of a workout as well.

Broom > Blower for garage. Blower > Broom for uneven concrete sidewalks and surfaces.

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