If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the grandaddy.
I have almost a half acre which gets covered in oak leaves during the fall. I have to get them all to the burn pile on one end of the property which usually involves blowing them into separate piles and transporting each pile to the burn pile a bit at a time.
I figured there has to be an easier way to do this. I used a leaf blower/vac, a 4" flexible hose, and an insulation disposal bag that I had leftover from another project. It works pretty good. Actually better than the vacuum does with the shoulder bag probably because the airflow isn’t as restricted.
Good question and all valid points.
There’s a few reasons for removing the leaves. One being pest control. Another being that they’re a fire hazard (especially relevant since we’re currently under one of the worst droughts in decades).
There’s also the matter of keeping peace with my neighbors who won’t appreciate all my leaves blowing into their yards or potentially plugging up their drainage culverts and flooding their basements, which around here is a very real possibility.
Burning them is just a matter of convenience but now you’ve made me think I could actually spread them in the woods behind the house and maybe that would be a better way of handling them.
Reverse your sucker and suck them out of the bag and spread around the trees. Assuming the bag is porous enough to do this.