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This triumph notwithstanding, when teetering on a stepladder, "the [slotted] screw wobbles, the screwdriver slips, the screw falls to the ground and rolls away, the handyman curses--not for the first time--the inventor of this maddening device."The savior, in this case, was Peter L. Robertson, a young Canadian traveling salesman who invented things in his spare time. His efforts to push an improved corkscrew, novel cuff links, and a more diabolical mousetrap failed. However, the socket-head screw he patented in 1907 succeeded. It was self-centering, could be driven with one hand, and the driver stayed in the socket. Furniture makers, boat builders, and Henry Ford appreciated the economies to be realized with these screws.

Like all of Bobcat''s skid-steer loaders, the A220 can accommodate myriad-powered and nonpowered attachments everything from angle brooms and augers to wheel saws and whisker brooms. And it''s that versatility, along with the all-wheel steer capability, that has the company licking its chops in anticipation of a range of new markets. "We have several test machines in the field right now at a wide variety of customers," Fitzgerald said. "We''ve got one at a recycling plant where they''re running in all-wheel steer 100 percent of the time because of tire wear. They''ve taped the switch so the guys can''t run in skid-steer mode. They''ve got three other machines there and they go through approximately $12,000 worth of tires a year. If the plant can reduce its tire cost significantly, the price difference between an 863 and A220 can easily be justified. The other area of concern is a landing area by a conveyor. Current operating methods wear out the concrete surface. Grooves get worn deep enough into the concrete that they need to mill it out and repour the concrete. The A220 is a lot easier on the surface.

For Lucia Colombaro, customer care manager for Tonutti, "we love American subsidies." She explained that European farmers are subsidized "not to produce crops", and that is not good for European farm equipment manufacturers. In the U.S., she said farmers are subsidized to aid them in marketing crops and that affords a better market for Tonutti equipment.Italian farm equipment is marketed in the U.S. through distributors, but many of the Italian manufacturers also have U.S. or Canadian warehouses and offices to provide quicker service and technical support.One of those is Maschio/Gaspardo, which recently opened a warehouse/technical center in Rock Island, Ill., according to Vincenzo Abate, corporate export area manager. From there, the company services seven distributors throughout the U.S., and it is looking for more distributors.

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