Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain lift tricks. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past 10 years. At present, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
Like for instance, units which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other machines within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models which depend on diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have risen 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the client, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain forklift market has leveled off rapidly over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a complete array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast models. These units offer lifting capacities that range from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to enable lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was developed to complete this task. The more complex and larger machines required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.