Types of Man Lifts
Designed particularly to vertically raise employees to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help move or raise employees form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer special handholds and steps or platforms to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being performed would decide precisely what type of man lift will be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a type of lift that is preferred for working near electrocution hazards, based on Man and Material Lift Engineering. The electrically insulated man lifts offer protection to employees against accidental electrocution. These kind of machinery are in compliance with the American National Standards Institute A92.2 Category C, 46kV Rated. These electrically insulated man lifts provide fiberglass insulated booms, are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses which serve to reduce ground error and fiber optic control cables.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique equipment capable of transporting workers vertically to difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name because of the scissor kind of design of the folding supports that can raise and lower the platform. To be able to hoist the lift, every one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
The scissor lift will either be powered manually or hydraulically. The hydraulic powered system does not rely on power, however enables the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure. Since the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from abruptly descending to the ground is eliminated, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts at the end of the day.
Capacity
Man lifts are designed in a huge range of weight capacities. Several man lifts have the capability to only hold many people while others have the ability to hold one person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting many individuals, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.