Today, Taylor Machine Works, Inc., under the leadership of the third generation of the Taylor family, is a major progressive force in the worldwide materials handling equipment industry. The “Big Red” product line consists of numerous models of pneumatic tire forklifts with standard forks and carriages or optional front-end attachments; lift capacities range up to 125,000 pounds. The product line also includes cushion tire forklifts (also with optional front-end attachments), log stackers, container handlers and reach stackers.
Taylor’s “Big Red” machines are on the job throughout the world and have made an impressive impact on the materials handling industry. These massive machines are utilized in such diverse applications as changing engines on jumbo jets, manipulating concrete culverts (twelve feet in diameter weighing up to twenty-five tons), moving and stacking empty and loaded containers up to eight-high, handling entire truckloads of logs in one bite, transporting cargo on and off huge ships, performing varied material handling jobs in steel mills, as well as many other material handling jobs.
The engineering and research and development groups at Taylor Machine Works continue to produce new and improved machines to get the job done in the materials handling industry. Special engineering of the “Big Red” machines produces innovations in the industry in response to customer requirements.