[delichon]

If you can clear my driveway faster with a rake than I can with a leaf blower, you are a superb athlete. Like John Henry.

[ffsm8]

Did you try rakes like this?

https://www.joom.com/products/681aed59eda2b001310d4e2c

[delichon]

A better rake will help me outcompete a leaf blower as well as better shoes will help me outcompete a car.

[integralid]

I'll tried a leaf blower only once (it was when visiting family) and I raked every other autumn day as a kid. Leaf blower was... extremely painful to use, for me. It felt like it took me 2x more time to achieve what rake would do effortlessly.

But a lot of it was probably familiarity with rake and a lack of skill with leaf blower. I am sorry ready to believe that technology progressed enough that leaf blowers are now usable. I'd like to see how it feels with wet leafs though.