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The top-of-the-line Toro is the best vacuum/blower that I have used (and I have used a few). It has a cast aluminum impeller that is much better than any other machine. You still cannot work with wet leaves, but it is able to deal with larger twigs than other units.
Vacuuming is better than raking in several ways - the main one is that the leaves get chopped, so they don't blow around when you get them where you want them. They decompose more quickly. And they are MUCH more compact.
I do some areas with the blower, and then switch to the vacuum without the bag, to shift the leaf toward where I am going to let them decompose. If there are so many leaves that I cannot just shift with the vacuum, I use the bag to collect them, then empty the bag on a tarp, and when that is full, I drag it to where I am collecting them.
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