Thank you for the response Dougt, and I have some good news. The tractor is safe at its new home.
This was an odd deal all around, there was a local auction coming up this Tuesday where it was a hoarder that started collecting junk in an old elevator. Village took the guy to court on it and apparently was forcing him to clean up his mess, forcing the auction to sell everything in one big lot. The guy that owns the place was scrambling to move stuff off the property before the sale, and this tractor happened to be in that mess. This was in Mulliken Michigan (just west of Lansing), we live not to far from there.
Its a bit rough, but for something a century old its doing okay Wheels are rotted through on the left side, right side is mostly solid but has a few spokes that don't make it to the rim. Both rear casters are missing but should be to hard to come up with some small cast wheels to fix that. Most of the important stuff is there, radiator, mag, carb. No handles though, but again nothing an afternoon of tinkering couldn't solve. All in all not too bad.


After getting that thing wrestled on to the trailer I can't imagine what wrangling one around a field must have been like. It is by far no David Bradley.
Had a small question, what is that gear coming out of the belt pulley gear box on the right side of the tractor? Its right snug up in the wheel to the point I thought it would hit the spokes when we tried to roll it.
Edit: uh oh, hope thats not a drive sprocket and the rings missing of that wheel.
I can't believe it took them 4 years to sell these off, they look like a work horse.