The Carriage
Similar to conventional lift trucks, the lifting attachment can be tilted from its horizontal position to forwards and backwards. The actual possible amount of tilt totally exceeds that of vertical mast forklifts. There is a large range 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. Some units have rotating carriages as well. This allows 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 much different exercise than it is on a vertical mast unit. The capacity of the unit is completely dependent on such things like: the amount of boom transaction deployed, if this is applicable and boom extension and angle, whether the unit is lifting on rubber tires or on outriggers. Moreover, which lifting attachment plays an important part, as does the wind, the grade the machine is operating on etc. All of these specifics could be changing regularly and this gives the operator a lot more information to consider.
Telehandlers will usually have some 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 may differ by thousands of pounds all together.