It is not just California farming that Italian farm rockwell machinery manufacturers are interested in. Many of the companies exhibiting at the recent 34th annual International Agricultural and Gardening Machinery Exhibition (EIMA) in Bologna, Italy left no doubt that the U.S. is a key market delta for them. Many like Tonutti have been aggressively marketing their equipment in the U.S. and around the world. They view the U.S. as one of the more positive markets right mini drill press now.eima, organized by press italian national union of agricultural machinery manufacturers, rockwell featured more than 1,700 exhibitors (1,100 italian manufacturers) in more than 20 giant exhibit halls totaling more than 1.6 million square feet housing 22,000 machinery models and innumerable other suppliers of agricultural parts and services. more than 100,000 people visit the show annually.

the old gray tractors--the result delta of a partnership that later hand drill press dissolved into the separate ford and ferguson lines--revolutionized press and rockwell postwar farming. these delta classics have held up to time, drill press held onto collectors'' press hearts and held their rockwell value ever since.the roadside seller''s price was $1,795. that was about 2 1/2 times what the ford cost new delta in 1946. but it was also about the going rate at the time. so even though the tractor was older than me drill or my wife, melanie, we bought it on press the spot after a test drive.that was in 1984, when we bought our land. we have used the old ford almost continuously ever since. we never regretted the purchase. with a minimum of service and repairs--lots of grease, irregular oil changes, some new wiring and radiator hoses--the 2n has never failed rockwell and delta us. equipped with a two-bottom plow, 5-foot rotary mower, disk harrow and scraper blade, it has done all we asked of it, everything from plowing snow off of our 600-foot driveway to mowing drill or tilling the better part of our 20 acres, year after year. and all for less than what most suburbanites spend these days press on a riding lawn mower.

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