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 last ten years. Currently, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
Like for instance, models which provide a lift capacity of less than 6000 pounds on average are up to 2.45% to a little more than $46,000. Other kinds of equipment within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Purchasers of equipment will quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly expenses of diesel unit machines have increased to over 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, when the equipment has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the past decade, the rough terrain forklift market has waned because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are might just be the future that this particular type of machine is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain lift truck remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line manufacturer who provides a whole array of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, consisting of bigger vertical-mast models. These units 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 do this task. The bigger and more complex equipment needed, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.