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Please see above. It is probably as he says and not a hammer by John Deere, but it is still an unusual hammer. Thanks.

Thanks. I won't get back in there today with a camera, but I have a feeling you're right. I will see what's intact of that linkage and get you some pictures. Thanks for the information.

Hi folks, I share a small shop with a couple of friends and we have too many hammers between us. I know, sad story. The truth is, we'd rather work on making stuff than work on fixing tools that would poorly duplicate capacities we already have. So this hammer we'd like to be rid of is a very worn and not too functional mechanical hammer that would need a lot of work to make reliable if you ask me, but, it is an unusual machine that might interest someone. It is marked JDH in the castings and "John Deere" on the flywheel. I'd guess it to be about a 25# hammer. The upper and lower halves of the hammer are bolted to a large wooden beam. It uses an idler pulley. It uses a leaf spring, but the linkage has an extra knuckle (3 on each side) which has the effect of letting you work a broad range of stock sizes without needing to adjust the ram height, but makes it quite the rattyclack express. It is in Philadelphia. I will try to post some pictures soon, but in the meantime, if anyone knows anything about such a hammer or has a Moline fetish, please post away.