Lets remember when the boring machine came out the US was in full on timber frame production mode. The rest of the world was already developed. We needed to build bridges, barns, churches, town halls, grange halls, and the boring machine was put to use. For the rest of the world a few repairs here and there, a T-auger was fine, no rush, same old thing we always used. In reality the boring machine was short lived, and the craft nearly died out with the innovation of stick building and balloon framing. It is no wonder France, Netherland along with other places afar didn't take up that boring old machine.