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 last ten years. Presently, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
For instance, units 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 equipment in the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers will quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery have risen to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, as soon as the machine has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it needs to produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the last ten years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may 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 forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift machines and a whole range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities varying 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 job. The larger and more complex machines needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.