The Carriage
Like typical forklifts, the lifting attachment can be tilted from its horizontal position to backwards and forwards. The actual possible amount of tilt totally exceeds that of vertical mast forklifts. There is a huge variety of available lifting attachments, 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 provide rotating carriages also. 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
Telehandlers have a load capacity rather similar to that of the vertical mast unit. The model's overall capacity would be dependent on things like: boom extension and angle, whether the unit is lifting on outriggers or on rubber tires, and the amount of boom transaction deployed, if this is applicable. As well, which lifting attachment plays a really main role, as does the wind, the grade the equipment is operating on and so on. All of these specifics could be changing regularly and this gives the operator a lot more information to consider.
Telehandlers will usually have several different load charts available to them, giving them a good reference they can use to know a certain lift's load capacity. Depending on the model in particular and the boom's configuration, the load capacity could vary by thousands of pounds all together.