Hey Norm,
Another observation I made when I was there; he had about 4 other mowers in his trailer, all fairly modern looking 4 strokers. I see a lot of mower guys having at least one, usually more, spare mowers with them. If I was in that business, mowing people lawns, I would stick a power torque as one one of them for just these kinds of lawns. The PT's are stupidly easy to service and keep running, and make light work of it instead of having to lift the blades, back away, etc, and can be gotten for a song. And they have 2 stroke fuel for their whipper snippers and blowers anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem.
