The Carriage
Like conventional forklifts, the lifting attachment can be tilted from its horizontal position to forwards and backwards. The actual amount of tilt possible completely exceeds that of vertical mast forklifts. There is a large range of lifting attachments offered, and this positioning ability makes them as efficient as possible.
Most telehandlers can tilt forward to a point where the carriage is actually parallel with the ground believe it or not! In addition, a lot of units offer rotating carriages too. This allows the operator to radially adjust the lifting attachment. This translates to the load being capable of being tilted forwards and backwards, as well as side to side.
Load Capacity
Figuring out the load capacity of a telehandler is a much 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 rubber tires or on outriggers. Additionally, which lifting attachment plays a really main role, as does the wind, the grade the equipment is operating on etc. All of these specifics can be changing on a regular basis and this gives the operator much more information to take into account.
Usually, telehandlers have some load charts available in order for the operator to reference so they could determine the load capacity of a certain lift. Depending upon the model in particular and the configuration of the boom, the load capacity can differ by thousands of pounds all together.