I used to use my riding lawn mower to get rid of the leaves, works very well if you don't pile them up. but now with my banana circles I just throw it all in them.
I have been contemplating on building a small juicer
to get the juice out of the p-stems and see what it does to my bananas in pots. a few years back I could have acquired some shafts from moyno pumps that would have worked excellent but alas the scrapers got them.