I know fall is a great time to see the leaves changing colors and there are so many nice places to go here in South Jersey to see them. But they do bring one thing I am not a big fan of, raking them! We are lucky here in New Jersey, you can just dump them on the street and they come around with trucks and just haul them away and launch them into outerspace! But I have spoken to people from other states and they don’t do that, they have to actually bag them. If I had to bag my leaves, I would fill at least 20+ large trashbags each weekend. So I use the old tarp method, take my gas blower (yard tools must be gas! More power!) and blow them all into a pile, then rake them onto the tarp and drag it out to the curb. Its actually nice to do some yardwork but man, our area has a lot of leaves! I can rake them one day, and the next day you can’t even tell. But once its done and the trucks come to pick them up, my son and I watch as the bulldozers push them and load them onto waiting dumptrucks. We live in Cherry Hill and thats how they do them, in Haddonfield they have a giant vacuum to pick them up but my son and I enjoy watching the big trucks! I will post some pictures when they come by, probably in a few more weeks.

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