Recently, an EPDAS T3007K telehandler forklift successfully completed loading and was officially shipped to Chile. This T3007K, custom-ordered by the Chilean customer, precisely matches the core needs of local farm handling and shelter support. It introduces a versatile solution with exceptional flexibility and powerful operational capabilities to Chile’s agricultural and diversified emergency service sectors.
Chile, as a country with a relatively well-developed agricultural and emergency response system in South America, has many farms located in the central valleys and southern plains, often characterized by narrow passages and complex terrain. Shelter construction and material supply work also demand stringent requirements for equipment mobility, load capacity, and safety. The compact telehandler, with its core advantages of “small size, big power,” stood out among numerous competitors and became the preferred choice for the Chilean customer.
Furthermore, the customer clearly planned a long-term asset utilization strategy from the initial stages of equipment procurement. In addition to meeting their own project needs, the equipment will also be used in the local rental market. Therefore, the customer not only focused on the equipment’s current performance but also highly valued its versatility, ease of operation, and long-term operating costs.
The telescopic handler forklift features a finely optimized body size, achieving a balance between maneuverability and stability. The overall height of the equipment is only 2.07 meters, and the width is 1.99 meters, allowing it to easily pass through low warehouse doors on farms, temporary passages in shelters, and narrow rural roads. At the same time, its minimum turning radius is only 3.8 meters, allowing for flexible turning and maneuvering in limited spaces without frequent adjustments to the working position, significantly reducing efficiency losses caused by site limitations. In these space-constrained scenarios, traditional loaders or large forklifts often struggle to operate flexibly, while the T3007K telehandler can easily complete turning, stacking, and loading and unloading, significantly improving operational efficiency.
It’s worth mentioning that the farm telehandler, while maintaining a compact size, optimizes weight distribution and chassis structure to keep the overall operating weight stable at 5.9 tons. This ensures the equipment’s operational stability in complex terrain and reduces the demands on ground bearing capacity—even when operating on soft ground such as muddy farm fields or temporarily leveled areas at shelters, it is less prone to sinking or tilting, offering far superior adaptability compared to competing products in the same class. In addition, the equipment features foldable rearview mirrors and a streamlined body design, further reducing space requirements during operation and preventing collisions with surrounding facilities and materials, providing double protection for operation in confined spaces.
The power system is the core competitive advantage of a telescopic handler. The multi-purpose telehandler is equipped with a 68kW turbocharged Deutz engine. This engine is renowned for its reliability, ample power, and fuel efficiency, and is widely used in high-end engineering machinery equipment overseas, making it perfectly suited to Chile’s complex climate and operating environment. Driven by this engine, the T3007K 3ton telehandler forklift has a maximum load capacity of 3 tons, a maximum lifting height of 6.9 meters, and a horizontal extension distance of up to 3.99 meters, easily handling the stacking and transportation of hay bales, grain bags, and farm implements, as well as the high-altitude delivery and long-distance transfer of building materials and emergency supplies needed for shelter construction.
Chile’s terrain is complex, with farms often located in moderately sloped valleys, and shelters potentially situated in remote mountainous areas or on temporarily leveled ground, placing extremely high demands on the equipment’s terrain adaptability. The 3ton telehandler is equipped with a full-time four-wheel drive system and off-road tires with a 500mm ground clearance, providing excellent passability and traction, easily handling muddy, sandy, and gently sloping terrain—the off-road tires effectively prevent slippage on wet farm roads; on uneven ground around shelters, the high ground clearance prevents the chassis from hitting the ground, ensuring normal operation of the equipment.
The telescopic handler forklift shipment to Chile not only provided the customer with high-quality equipment and services but also holds significant strategic importance for our efforts to deepen our presence in the South American market and expand our overseas business. It also injects new momentum into the development of agriculture and emergency response systems in Chile. In the agricultural sector, the equipment’s high efficiency can promote the transformation of local small and medium-sized farms towards large-scale and mechanized operations, improving agricultural production efficiency and competitiveness. In the emergency response sector, the equipment’s mobility and multi-scenario adaptability can compensate for the lack of local emergency rescue equipment, improving rapid response capabilities to natural disasters and providing support for protecting the lives and property of local residents.
This application project of the T3007K Telehandler in Chile fully demonstrates the comprehensive advantages of this model in terms of compact design, powerful performance, and multi-purpose adaptability. In the future, we will continue to be guided by customer needs, deepen product research and development and technological innovation, and further expand into other South American markets such as Argentina, Brazil, and Peru. We will optimize product design and improve our service system based on the specific characteristics of different countries, providing global customers with more targeted and high-quality construction machinery equipment and solutions.
