Welcome to the website for Rodkey Brothers, Inc. Here
you can find information involving New Holland, search our
used equipment, and find out what is happening at our locations in
Rochester, Logansport, Rossville, and Bluffton in northern Indiana.
Rodkey Brothers is now a dealer of Sioux Steel. Check out all that they
have to offer at http://www.siouxsteel.com/.
Feel free to contact sales representative Dennis Dunten at 800-379-3331
for any assistance.
6/9/11
This
video shows a New Holland T8.360 tractor pulling a Kinze 3800 24-row 30”
planter. The fuel being used at a rate of 5.4 gal/hr. translates to
.15 gal/acre or about $0.60 per acre at $4.00 diesel. This rate is
consistent with the measured fuel used by this tractor during the 2011
planting season in multiple planting conditions. Click the play icon at
the bottom left side of the video to begin playing!
6/9/11
The
Cornrower video shows a test model operating in corn that is standing
fairly well but which is in a field blanketed with snow. The purpose
of the test was to see how well the Cornrower would handle brittle stalks
and whether the unit would have issues with snow in transporting the
stover to a windrow. As you will see in the video, the machine
worked well and made clean windrows, free of snow or any dirt and rocks.
No other system provides this unique ability to allow harvesting of
excellent stover on snow. Cornrower is a trademarked name for the
unit which is going into limited production for season 2011. It is
protected by patent number 7856800. Other patents are pending.
New
Holland Rochester has just been appointed as a dealer for Mil-stak Bale
Wagons for the
Northern Indiana
area. The images shown here are from our delivery and start up of
the first unit. It was purchased by Simpson Straw of Sharpsville,
IN. The bale wagon is robust and was able to handle the bales shown
here even though the hay was moist and the bales weighed about 1700 lbs.
each.
More
information is available at www.milstak.com
or by contacting us at the dealership.
6/9/11
The
video shown here was taken in Oct. of 2010 at a farm near
Rochester
,
IN.
The harvest rate was about 3.5 mph in irrigated corn that had
grain moisture in the very low 20% range but had stalk moisture in the
high 40% range. The video shows a prototype Cornrower windrowing
the stover and a tractor and baler making round bales from the stover
right behind the combine. The stover bales were wrapped with a
tube wrapper and quality of the material remained excellent. The
Cornrower provides for inexpensive stover harvest of the highest
quality. For more information on the Cornrower, contact us at the
dealership. Cornrower is a trademarked name for this machine.
Cornrower design is protected by
US
patent 7856800, other patents are pending.
6/1/11
The
T8 tractor from New Holland offers the longest wheelbase in the industry
for a high-horsepower tractor. The iconic Super Steer front axle
that revolutionized tractor design is not used on the new T8 Tier IV
tractors. A new ‘Saddle Suspension’ front axle and long
wheelbase provide unmatched power-to-ground performance along with
unexcelled ride. While the Saddle Suspension axle provides more
vertical movement than any other such front axle, it also allows the
tractor to have a tighter turning diameter than the T8000 tractors with
Super Steer non-suspended front axles as well as competitive tractors
such as the Deere 8R series of tractors. This raw video shows
clearly how the tractor turning diameters compare. For more
information on T8 features, such as the Suspended Cab option, contact us
at the dealership.
