The invention particularly relates to special forking and lifting equipment applied to a tobacco mellowing warehouse. According to the equipment, equipment positioning and navigating can be realized on the basis of a most advanced laser navigation technology and an optimized system algorithm, the action control over the automatic equipment can be realized through a unique control system, the forking, conveying and placing actions of tobacco boxes can be automatically completed, the potential safety hazard brought by a manual forklift of the tobacco mellowing warehouse in the process of conveying the tobacco boxes into or out of a high-level goods shelf can be avoided, the safety in the operation process can be guaranteed, and meanwhile, the effects of high efficiency, automation and intelligentization can be achieved.