Site telehandler
What the trade calls a Manitou, after the French manufacturer.
A telescopic boom on an all-terrain carrier:
it sets down far and high, without a crane and without heavy stabilisation.
Other names for this machine: telehandler, telescopic handler, and 'a Manitou' - here too a make.
- Category
- CACES R.482A category F (all-terrain handling trucks)
- Status
- Partial carrier
What it does
the further the boom comes out, the less it lifts — the permissible load is read on a chart, never from memory.
Diagrammatic silhouette, without dimensions and not to scale.
A telescopic boom on an all-terrain carrier:
it places a load high up and far out, without a crane and without heavy outriggers.
What it does not do. The permissible load falls as soon as the boom comes out.
It is the chart that governs, not the capacity shown.
they are what permits the reach announced.
Synthetic image.
it is the ground that decides, not the data sheet.
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What governs the fitting of an attachment
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The tool carriage
Forks, bucket, work platform, winch:
each manufacturer has its own carriage, and moving from one to another needs an adapter. -
The load chart
The permissible load collapses as soon as the boom comes out.
It is not the capacity shown that governs, it is the chart at the real reach and height. -
The hydraulic flow available at the end of the boom
It governs the operation of hydraulic tools:
mixing bucket, sweeper, grab. -
The load safety circuit
A monitoring device limits the machine as soon as the overturning moment is approached.
An undeclared tool can put it into fault.
One model, as a reference point
The values below hold for this model only.
They are there to give an order of magnitude to anyone who has none, not to serve as a reference.
- Lifting capacity
- 3 500 kg
- Lifting height
- 12,60 m
- Maximum reach
- 8,65 m
- Hydraulics
- 133 l/min at 260 bar
- Breakout force
- 7,400 daN
- Engine power
- 100 hp, that is 74.40 kW
- Unladen weight
- 9,470 kg (with forks)
Caveat. The capacity of 3,500 kg is the maximum figure, boom retracted.
It collapses as soon as the boom comes out:
it is the manufacturer's load chart that governs, never the figure shown.
Source. Product page of the manufacturer Manitou,
recorded on 1 September 2026.
These values are those of one precise model, at one precise date. They do not describe a category:
there are no characteristics of a compact loader in general, there are those of the model you have.
They change from one year to the next and never replace the data sheet of your machine.
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