What is this? Pls help identify. Thank you!

BigBigTex

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Name, make, model, and approx mfg date, please.

I saw this in my great grandfather's field.

There are several other parts lying around it...
even the belt is there.

I'd like to know what it is and I'd like to save / restore /donate it, too.

Thank you.
I can post more pics, if needed.
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The round piece in the ground is the cyclone to settle the dust. It goes with the hammermill, although it looks like it is missing a section or two of pipe.
 
Do a search for David Bradley hammermill and see what you think. I have my grandfathers that I converted to PTO, and I have part of my uncles. The blower off of my uncles looks identical to the one in your picture.
But your dust collector/bagger looks different.
 
It is a JI Case HB hammermill, used to grind corn, oats, barley etc. Got the instruction manual for that machine but don't have a scanner for a picture. If it is 14" wide it is a H14B model. 10 " wide it is a H10B model. I'm in E SD but would like to own it. I have a 15" model.
 
Does your manual look similar to this? I see one on eBay for $15.
Approx. mfg dates 1929-1945...

I really appreciate how everyone here is so helpful. Thank you all.
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We had a similar hammermill when I was young. I recall its label read "Hummer Plow Works," somewhere in Illinois, if I remember right.
 
We had a David Bradley hammermill. If I had a dollar for every bushel that I shoveled into that hammermill, I would be living in style now. We ground oats and barley for the hogs and whole earn corn for the feeder cattle.
 
Whoever parked it out there without putting something over they table and the pipe to keep rain out oughta be taken to the woodshed lol. IF your REAL lucky and Case put the metal on the bottom they usually put on stuff it may still be there. IF NOT, youll have to replace the bottom before you can use it.
ALSO, the belt pulley is likely seized up. DO NOT take a pair of pipe wrenches and put on the pulley side and try to free it. open it up, grease the bearings well, and get someone to help you with turning it BOTH from the inside, AND from the pulley as I described.
You break that pulley, its pretty much junk.
That pipe that's missing is a heavy guage metal pipe. There should also be a brace rod to hold it up in place that mounts onto the hammermill. Don't know where you would find an elbow for it. The pipe itself shouldn't be too hard to find.
DONT USE STOVE PIPE. Dad had a MW or SEARS, but I think MW hammermill. One day while we were at school, he was grinding corn for the cows, and a hammer came loose and cut a 10in gash into the pipe. That was the end of the hammermill.
 
This is a John Deere 10A hammer mill. I have one exactly like it. I see one of the screens for it is lying in the loading chute. The small round hole near the bottom is supposed to have a small sliding door on it to regulate the amount of air the fan can draw. I grind corn meal with mine every year.
 
Looks exactly like the case H8B that I'm trying to sell only that one looks wider. Mine does have Case cast in the blower housing. Must be older or newer than mine.
AaronSEIA
 
Thank you one and all.
Anyone want to come get it and give it a good home? I'm in north Texas along the Red River.

Photo shows the sturdy support pipe is attached.

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Photo shows the steel base has been mounted on wood, and might not need replacing.

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i have one similar its on a two wheel running gear i believe its all origanal no dust collector i repiped it with 6 inch stove pipe direactly into my feed shed ground close to 500 bushels of corn so far one elblow is just starting to ware through
loren
 

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