The Carriage
Like conventional lift trucks, the lifting attachment could be tilted from its horizontal position to backwards and forwards. The actual amount of tilt possible totally exceeds that of vertical mast forklifts. There is a huge range of lifting attachments available, and this positioning ability makes them as efficient as possible.
Most telehandlers could tilt forward to a point where the carriage is actually parallel with the ground believe it or not! Furthermore, lots of units offer rotating carriages also. This enables the operator to radially adjust the lifting attachment. This translates to the load being able of being tilted backwards and forwards, as well as side to side.
Load Capacity
Knowing a telehandler's load capacity is a a lot different exercise than it is on a vertical mast model. The capacity of the model is entirely dependent on such things like: the amount of boom transaction deployed, if this is applicable and boom angle and extension, whether the unit is lifting on outriggers or on rubber tires. Moreover, which lifting attachment plays an main part, as does the wind, the grade the machine is operating on etc. All of these specifics can be changing on a regular basis and this gives the operator a lot more information to think about.
Normally, telehandlers have some load charts available in order for the operator to reference so they can determine the load capacity of a particular lift. Depending on the configuration of the boom and the model in particular, the load capacity could differ by thousands of pounds all together.