The Carriage
Like typical forklifts, the lifting attachment can be tilted from its horizontal position to forwards and backwards. The actual possible amount of tilt completely exceeds that of vertical mast lift trucks. There are different kinds of available lifting attachments, and this positioning ability makes them as efficient as possible.
The majority of telehandlers can tilt forward to a point where the carriage is actually parallel with the ground believe it or not! Furthermore, lots of models provide rotating carriages as well. This enables the operator to adjust the lifting attachment radially. This translates to the load being capable of being tilted backwards and forwards, and side to side.
Load Capacity
Telehandlers have a load capacity quite similar to that of the vertical mast model. The model's overall capacity will be dependent on things such as: the amount of boom transaction deployed, if this is applicable and boom angle and extension, whether the unit is lifting on rubber tires or on outriggers. In addition, which lifting attachment plays an main part, as does the wind, the grade the machinery is operating on and so on. All of these specifics can be changing regularly and this gives the operator much more information to consider.
Telehandlers would often have several different load charts available to them, giving them a good reference they could utilize to determine a certain lift's load capacity. Depending upon the configuration of the boom and the model in particular, the load capacity could differ by thousands of pounds all together.