davout wrote:

In this context do these leaf blowers/vacs really work?

I've always thought leaf blowers were pretty pointless, the wind will
just blow the stuff back again. Usually seen being used to blow debris
out of a garden onto the road. I suppose they haven't got a rug to lift
& sweep it under.

I found a broken milk bottle in some fallen leaves at a council sports
centre a couple of days ago, when a bit of glass went through my shoe
and into my foot.

"Dear me!" I said.

A vac would have it's uses, I suppose.