Straight mast forklifts have emerged with the market for rough terrain forklifts. They have leveled off in the wake of the telescopic handler explosion of the past decade. Now, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the forklift's core function.
Like for example, models that provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a bit more than $46,000. Other machines within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment buyers will rapidly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend upon 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, once the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the customer, it must produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off fast over the past decade in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of machinery is evolving to. The job of a telehandler is to place a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a complete variety of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of larger vertical-mast units. These models provide 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 made to do this job. The more complex and bigger machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.