As the market for rough terrain lift trucks has emerged so has the need for straight mast forklifts. Their demand and emergence has leveled over the past ten years because of the explosion of telescopic handlers. Presently, manufacturers of lift trucks are focusing their product development on the core function of the forklift.
Like for example, units 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 equipment within the category's bulk class varying 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 costs are up ever so slightly.
With units which depend upon diesel fuel, hourly costs in those 2 classes have increased 81.6% and 84.3% respectively. Even if the prices on the dealer's tag may not seem all that different, once the machinery has left the sales yard and enters the customer's work space, it should produce on a large scale.
Over the last ten years, the rough terrain forklift market has decreased because of the increase in telescopic-handler purchases. The telescopic handlers are may just be the future that this type of equipment is evolving to. The telehandler's job is placing a load with a long reach. The rough-terrain forklift remains the heavyweight champ when it comes to pure grunt lifting.
The company Omega produces a lot of different lines of lift machines and a complete array of rough-terrain forklifts. The Mega Series is an established line consisting of bigger vertical-mast units. These models provide 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 made to complete this task. The larger and more complex machinery required, the more specialized that OEMs such as Omega become.