Buy Telehandler Forklifts

Telehandler Forklift Trucks provide versatile vertical lift & horizontal reach.  They are the ideal vehicle when you need to quickly & easily reach up & over things.  They differ from regular forklifts that can only provide lift vertically, Telehandlers come with a range of attachments for different jobs across a range of job site environments.

What is a Telehandler Forklift?

A Telehandler (also known as a teleporter, reach forklift, boom lift or lull) is almost a hybrid between a mini crane & a forklift.  They tend to be used for moving large amounts of material, cleaning up job sites, moving inventory around warehouses, unloading & loading palettes from deliveries, as well as some more specialist tasks such as snow removal.  They are often used in agriculture to move hay & hay bales, but increasingly they are being used in construction & manufacturing.  The telehandler can usually be elevated at a 70 degree angle and then extended out to approx 30ft.  This gives both vertical & horizontal reach so lifting over obstacles or accessing difficult narrow job or task areas.  Telehandlers come in rough terrain specifications with large tyres so unfinished sites are not a problem.

Telehandler forklift attachments

Telehandlers are very versatile pieces of equipment that can be used for a wide variety of jobs & sites.  In addition to the most common palette fork design, they can be fitted with a wide range of attachments for specific jobs;

• Side-tilt carriage - ideal for placing on uneven surfaces

• Material bucket - rehandling, grading, dozing, levelling & dumping

• Cubing forks - for cubes of bricks or blocks

• Pallet forks - standard design for moving palettes

• Lumber forks - a versatile fork attachment

• Grapple buckets - for demolition, scrapping & waste gathering

• Work platforms - to support workers at height

• Truss jib - a mini crane jib for overhead lifting

• Snowplow attachment when it all gets too snowy to work

Telehandler forklift guide

Telehandler forklifts come in a wide variety of shapes & sizes, but here are some general guidelines for what they can do;

• Telehandler forklifts can elevate usually up to 70 degrees

• Telehandler forklifts can reach up to 30ft out

• They can lift as high as 18-54 feet 

• They can have a max load of 5500lbs to 15000lbs

• They come in diesel, electric or regular combustion engines

• Telehandlers come in different sizes from 10000lbs to 35000lbs

What training or license do I need to operate a Telehandler Forklift?

A very common question is whether you can operate a Telehandler with a Forklift licence.  Visit www.com to review training courses, find the nearest course to you and to help understand the training you or your colleagues need.