History

      Valley Tool and Manufacturing Company  P.O. Box 220   *  2507 Tully Road Hughson, California 95326

              Phone: 209-883-4093  Fax: 209-883-2500 Email: tom@vrisimo.com

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40 years ago Tony & Dorothy Vrisimo started building the Vrisimo flail mower in  their welding shop in Chico California. He started building 10' orchard mowers after a bad experience using a Ford flail mower, to keep the grass down in his no till 80 acre almond orchard. Soon his neighbors and local growers  all wanted one for their orchards. Word got out that this was the highest quality, best cutting flail mower anywhere. In 1966 he built the first reverse rotation mower and that's the way we run them today. . .  In 1974 Tony & Dorothy sold Vrisimo Flail Mower to Gould Paper Corporation and the operation was moved from the shop located on Wilson Landing Road across town to the McNair facility, another recent Gould acquisition. Later the mower manufacturing was moved to Ceres ,California sharing space with the recently purchased Ingalls Manufacturing Co. In 1986 Vrisimo Mowers was purchased by Marvin Davis & Jim Allen. They saved the company from extinction when Gould Paper Corp. failed to make the division profitable. Marvin & Jim had the mowers built just down the road in Hughson by Valley Tool & Mfg. During this time the mower product line was perfected and the brush and row crop  shredders were developed.  Marvin focused on developing a strong Vrisimo dealer network and increased sales through out the west. Vrisimo Equipment Company is now solely owned by Valley Tool and Manufacturing. Vrisimo mowers and shredders have been built continuously for forty years and at the Hughson facility for the past 20 years. LET US BUILD ONE FOR YOU!

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