OK, let's assume a 5519 is an apple. I'm asking if anyone knows of similar apples. I'm in an area where we don't have access to dealers that carry lifting machines so I just have to judge by pics and specs. Like you say the 438000 results on Google don't help pare down the options very well.

as telehandlers go they are unique in thier own sense
a piggyback lift may be the closest thing to what he has there but i think he is asking for a comparison to other telehandlers.

i did a simple google search and came up with 438,000 results for 'compact telehandlers' from all brands out there.

genie, jlg, cat, jcb, skytrak, bobcat, Case, New Holland, John Deere and the list goes on.

he is just going to have to do his own homework and call these people and get info and pricing on these and decide what he wants.
plain and simple

and in all fairness swoop is correct, these are not 'forklifts'
persay, they might have forks on them but in my world at cat they are classified as 'heavy equipment' and only the heavy equipment division are allowed to work on these.

kind of wonder in what manners the Original poster expected as far as answers to "equal to what?"
Manitou and JLG (and a couple of other brands) also makes a few '-compact- telehandlers'. they all have some things in common and some things not common, and I often think anyone looking at one of these compact telehandler might consider a 'truck mounted' brand (Piggyback, spyder, teledyne, moffett) as able to do the same job most often, and may be even easier to get from site to site.

In my (not always) humble opinion, no one is answering his question because no one understands what he is asking for, which sounds to me like he wants an expert opinion of how apples compare to oranges with information about which orange is an apple.
I hope we have either answered his concern, or gotten to a spot we can clarify the question.

There is a Terex plant here in Rock HIll SC that produces some of these, and I have, in the past, been the guy that took care of their industrial trucks. (in the plant they used sit down counterbalanced forklifts). I have also worked on a number of both compact and regular telehandlers.

hey i'm just being neighborly 'so to speak'
nobody else is answering your question because of what i said in my first post
this isnt a 'normal' forklift
but if your going to be this way i'll be on my way

have a good day

Sorry I lost my head. That was rude.

i've seen plenty of telehandlers and even serviced one or two but i've never seen any in the compact series. At least not in the class range you first mentioned 5519.

I'm looking for a compact teleandler, looking for someone with knowledge from actual experience with the little machines.

just remove the spaces i added in the links
..... or just google caterpillar and JLG telehandler
..... or just 'telehandler' and it will yield many results of different brands.

cat has a telehandler series
h t t p://w w w.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/telehandlers.html

JLG also has telehandler series
h t t p://w w w.jlg.com/en/equipment/telehandlers/jlg

oh yeah, this is not a normal forklift :oP

hope this helps :o)