Rick’s Sales & Service

Before Rick’s Sales and Service came to be, the business started out as Hammer Implement. Rick’s grandparents, Clinton and Pearl Hammer, began farming in rural Apple River, Illinois during the Great Depression in 1939. After 30 years, Clinton erected a building on the farm which was the site of an old chicken house. He used the building to repair his farm machinery which evolved into supplying Allis Chalmers tractors and related farm implements to the surrounding farm families. They also began selling Simplicity lawn and garden equipment about this time.