The Carriage
Like typical lift trucks, the lifting attachment could be tilted from its horizontal position to backwards and forwards. The actual amount of tilt possible totally exceeds that of vertical mast lift trucks. There is a huge range of lifting attachments available, and this ability to position makes them as effective as possible.
Most telehandlers could tilt forward to a point where the carriage is actually parallel with the ground believe it or not! Additionally, a lot of units provide rotating carriages as well. This allows the operator to adjust the lifting attachment radially. This translates to the load being able of being tilted backwards and forwards, and side to side.
Load Capacity
Figuring out a telehandler's load capacity is a much different exercise than it is on a vertical mast unit. 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 outriggers or on rubber tires. Also, which lifting attachment plays an important part, as does the wind, the grade the machinery is operating on and so forth. All of these specifics could be changing on a regular basis and this gives the operator a lot more information to think about.
Most of the time, telehandlers have some load charts available in order for the operator to reference so they could know the load capacity of a particular lift. Depending upon the configuration of the boom and the model in particular, the load capacity can differ by thousands of pounds all together.