As the market for rough terrain forklifts has emerged so has the requirement for straight mast forklifts. Their emergence and demand has leveled over the past ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Now, forklift manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
Like for instance, models which offer a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little over $46,000. Other equipment within the category's bulk class varying from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Equipment purchasers would quickly point out only if their real costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel unit machines have increased to more than 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 machinery has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it should produce on a large scale.
The rough-terrain lift truck market has leveled off rapidly over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of machine 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 makes lots of different lines of lift machinery and a whole array of rough-terrain lift trucks. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities ranging 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 larger and more complex machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.