Raking leaves is a torturous, terrible, and rigorous chore that, for me, is usually left until Spring and I get to rake up wet, disgusting, dog shit filled leaves, only to reveal a hideous mixture of moosh, and death that was once called a lawn. But on the plus side, it makes mowing the lawn a lot easier since the only thing that's left is dirt and weeds. These 16 Unique Yard Tools are sure to make your autumn clean up process a little easier on you this year.
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1.) Giant Bear Claw Leaf Scoopers
These bear glove leaf scoopers attach to your hands and allow you to gather leaves much more rapidly. No longer will you have to attempt to squeeze two rakes together to gather your leaves like some sort of savage. The giant bear claw leaf scoops will help you get your leaf bagging duties done in no time.
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2.) iRobot Looj 330 - Gutter Cleaning Robot
Why do anything when a robot can do it for you? That’s my motto. The gutter cleaning robot is a slender yet long robot that you place into your gutters and it will make its way down to the end and flip all the leaves and debris out of the gutter. Using its four stage cleaning process to dislodge and clear debris using its front auger propeller, you’ll be left with a spotless gutter that’s ready to divert your rain come summer.
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3.) Giant Bendable Tarp - Easy Leaf Bag Loader
The easy leaf bag loader is essentially a giant bendable tarp that you can lay on the ground and rake your leaves onto. Once the tarp is filled with leaves you can simply bend the tarp on the sides and fit it right into your leaf bag and dump all the leaves in. The easy leaf bag loading tarp allows you to fill an entire bag in just under 1 minute.
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4.) Gutter Downspout Leaf Filter (set of 4)
The gutter downspout leaf filter is a device that you can place inside your gutter on top of the downspout that diverts the rain to the ground from your gutters. The leaf filter will allow the rain to come through but keep out the leaves from entering the downspout, thus allowing you to not have to clean it out come spring.
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5.) The Handy Camel Is a Carrying Handle For Large Bags
The handy camel is an easier way to haul around big bags of dirt, rocks, or mulch that you would normally have to throw over your shoulder. The Handy Camel attaches right to the top of any bag and converts into a handy handle that allows you to easily transport heavy bags around wherever you need them. Or you know get a wheelbarrow.
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6.) The Sure Can Is The Easiest Way To Fill Your Stuff Up With Gas
No longer will you have to bend down like some sort of savage and tip the gas canister upside down and spill gas all over your fingers to get gas into your power tools. The Sure Can allows you to simply place the nozzle into the hole of your gas tank and simply press a button to release the flow of gas. But best of all the Sure Can self-ventilates so the gas can easily flow out with out the canister glugging the gas back and forth and dispensing at a glacial pace.
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7.) Yard Leaf Sweeper
The yard leaf sweeper allows you to pick up all the leaves in your yard by simply running over it with this sweeper device. It’s essentially like you’re mowing your lawn, but it’s not actually cutting your lawn, it’s just sweeping your lawn for all the leaves. The yard leaf sweeper sweeps all your leaves into a container on the back of the device that allows you to easily bag the leaves up.
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8.) Leaf Shredder - Automatically Shreds And Bags Your Leaves
When you’ve just simply had enough of bagging leaves, the leaf shredder might just be your best friend. The leaf shredder/mulcher allows you to place a bag on the bottom of the device and simply throw in you leaves which will immediately get shredded or mulched and thrown into a bag for you to discard once full.
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9.) The WORX JawSaw Is Your Own Personal Jaws of Life
Personally I have a new branch that’s fallen in my backyard at least once a day. Sometimes they're tiny, sometimes it’s half the tree. The jaw saw is essentially your own personal jaws of life that can pretty much cut through anything. Perfect for cutting tree branches in half to easily transport them into your neighbor's yard after they fall from your tree, for cutting down a small forest, or just to take down a few trees or branches in your backyard.
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10.) Manual Pocket Chainsaw
Maybe you’re too broke to afford some power tools, you’d like a workout while you do some yard work, or maybe you’re just a greeny and are trying to save the world by not contributing to pollution by using gas yard tools. The manual pocket saw is a mini chainsaw that’s powered by your arms. It’s essentially a chainsaw blade that’s attached to two hand grips. You can even use it to trim some pretty high tree branches by attaching long ropes to ends of them and throwing it over the branch.
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11.) Long Reach Electric Tree Trimming Saw
When you don’t feel like trimming your branches using your own two arms using the manual pocket saw, the long reach tree trimming saw might be more up your alley. The long reach saw has a telescoping pole that can reach up to 14 feet high, and is perfect for trimming lower (yet still somewhat high) tree branches.
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12.) E-Z Rake - Rakes and Easily Picks Up Leaves
The EZ Rake is a leaf rake that is made up of two rake heads that collapse into one another to easily pick up the leaves after you rake them into a pile. The one side of the rake is an actual rake that can be used to gather the leaves, and once ready to pick the leaves up, simply pull the catcher down and grasp the leaves until you’re over your bag or leaf collector.
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13.) Water Broom Pressure Sweeper
The water broom is a pressure sweeper that attaches to your garden hose and mixes regular old sweeping with power washing. With the pressure of the water coming out right next to ground ads a lot of extra power that’s sure to get that nasty grime out of your garage floor that your wife's been nagging you about.
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14.) Garden Grabber
The garden grabber may look like a giant head massager, and could probably be used as such, but it’s main purpose is to pick up leaves once you’ve gathered them into a pile. Simply dive the head into your leaves and close the grips and dump you leaves into your bag.
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15.) Wet Leaves Rake
Raking leaves is a torturous, terrible chore that, for me, is usually left until Spring and I get to rake up wet, disgusting, dog shit filled leaves, only to reveal a hideous mixture of moosh and death that was once called a lawn. But on the plus side, it makes mowing the lawn a lot easier since the only thing that's left is dirt and weeds. The wet leaves rake is meant to be better at raking up wet leaves when you’re a lazy shlub and waited until Spring to clean up your yard of all the leaves.
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16.) Giant Leaf Bag For Your Leaf Gathering Power Tools
This giant leave bag attaches to your lawn mower, leaf mulcher, leaf blower, leaf shredder, or really anything that can gather leaves, and allows to only empty it once you’ve gathered a trillion leaves, rather than emptying the bag every 4 minutes like a normal sized bag would have you do. The giant leaf bag holds over 50 Cubic Feet or 40 bushels of material.
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17.) BONUS: The Amazing Rake
When it comes to raking leaves and cleaning your yard up in the spring, the worst part is clearly trying to gather everything you've just raked up into a tiny little trash bag. Instead of having to shovel leaves and hard debris into your shirt and then into a tiny bag that's about to rip apart, this unique rake/shovel combo helps you gather leaves, and then pinches together to easily transport the debris to your trash bin.
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