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 past ten years. Now, lift truck makers are focusing their product development on the core function of the lift truck.
These units for example offer a lift capacity below 6,000 lbs have increased in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per equipment. Other equipment within the category's bulk class ranging from 6000 pounds to 10,000 pounds in capacity are up 3.15% to $54,177. Machine purchasers will rapidly point out only if their real expenses are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model equipment have risen 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 work space of the buyer, it has to produce on a large scale.
Over the past ten years, the rough terrain lift truck market has waned due to 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 forklift continues to be the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The manufacturer Omega makes a lot of different lines of lift machinery and a complete range of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line that consist of of bigger vertical-mast models. These models offer lifting capacities which range 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 developed to complete this job. The bigger and more complex machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.