We had a local small engine repair guy who's yard looked like that. I was pretty sad when the city made him get rid of all of it and basically shut down his business. I bought out all of his pre-ban 2.5 gallon gas cans.
When I was in high school and working at the local powersports store, we'd get rotor tillers in from the reservation with the tines bent at 90 degree angles all the time and old pissed off guys wanting them straightened out..... The ground is crap out there, but not like that.....come to find out the native kids used to take them to the top of a hill, sit on the engines with their feet out in front of them, hands reached back behind on the controls, and race them down the hill..... I was slightly disappointed I hadn't thought of it myself.....
I knew a guy in Millis, Massachusetts who had almost that many - he rented them out and also did small engine repair. His backyard was full of dead lawn and garden power equipment.
