The Carriage
Like standard lift trucks, the lifting attachment can be tilted from its horizontal position to backwards and forwards. The actual possible amount of tilt completely exceeds that of vertical mast forklifts. There are various types of available lifting attachments, and this positioning ability makes them as effective as possible.
The majority of telehandlers have the capability of tilting to a position that is actually parallel to the ground. Several units have rotating carriages as well. This enables the operator to radially adjust the lifting attachment. This translates to the load being able of being tilted backwards and forwards, and 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 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 a really important part, as does the wind, the grade the machinery is operating on and so forth. All of these specifics could be changing constantly and this gives the operator much more information to think about.
Telehandlers will 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 vary by thousands of pounds all together.