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 10 years. Now, lift truck manufactures are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
These models for example offer a lift capacity under 6,000 lbs have risen in price on average of 2.45% to around $46,000 per machinery. Other types 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. Purchasers of equipment would quickly point out only if their actual costs are up ever so slightly.
Hourly costs of diesel model machinery have risen to more than 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag might not seem all that different, once the machine has left the sales yard and enters the work space of the buyer, it must produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, 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 kind of equipment 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.
The manufacturer Omega makes lots of different lines of lift equipment and a whole variety of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line which consist of of larger vertical-mast units. These models provide lifting capacities ranging 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 task. The more complex and larger equipment required, the more specialized that OEMs like Omega become.