For the second year in a row I rented one of those giant walk-behind leaf blowers to clear the backyard. I can't believe we spent hours and hours clearing leaves the old fashioned way before finding this. Two hours with the thing and it's done, including the hard parts on the fence line. And including the adjacent yards so the leaves don't just blow back against the fence. Since we have the ditch and brush at the back of the yard I just blow the leaves back there and leave them (get it?).