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, manufacturers of forklifts are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These units for instance offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per equipment. Other kinds of machinery in the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine buyers would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
With models that depend upon diesel fuel, hourly expenses in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, as soon as the equipment 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 fast over the past 10 years in the wake of the telescopic-handler explosion. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this kind of machinery is evolving to. The telehandler's task is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
Omega is a multi-line producer who provides a complete variety of rough-terrain forklift families. They have established the Mega Series, that consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These units provide lifting capacities which vary from 8000 pounds all the way up to 20,000 pounds. The next step was to allow lifting capacities up to 50,000 pound and the HERC Series was made to do this job. The bigger and more complex machinery needed, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.