I miss the days around twelve years ago when I would routinely find old mowers (trade ins?)dumped near mower shop's skips out in the open carpark in various states of function.
It was a double edge sword as I only had a sedan and had to load them into the rear seat which was heavy on my back. I also became overrun with mowers in the back yard with few places to put them undercover and so the elements got to them and they deteriorated fast.
I eventually had to dispose of them as they took too much room and harboured creepy crawlies.
If I still had them today, I could probably make a tidy profit on ebay as a lot of them were the now harder to get Victa hi arch alloy chassis, many in good shape.
Such is life.