Telescoping Boom Lifts
Telescoping booms lifts are designed to mount a work bucket on an extendable, straight arm which is situated on a rotating turntable. Typically, telescoping boom lifts are used for tasks which require reaching at maximum height, exceeding other types of lifts. Like for example, employees are able to perform exterior repairs or renovations on buildings of medium height but using these lifts as opposed to having the additional work of setting up an outside elevator or a pulley system.
The bucket of the boom lift normally just holds one worker. These buckets are better suitable to particular tasks like electrical repair, rather than window washing or general maintenance. These lifts come in gas or electric configurations and are available with both indoor and outdoor tires.
Scissor Lifts
Under the scissor lifts work platform are the cross braces in which the machinery gets its name. Once the braces move together it pushes the platform straight up. Since these equipment must be directly positioned below the work site, these units are way more limited in their use as opposed to boom lifts.
Scissor lifts do, however, offer larger platforms which enable the operator controlling the lift to access a larger work surface when the lift is raised. With scissor lifts, all-terrain capability is less of an issue with these models, since they should sit on flat ground in order to be utilized. Scissor lifts are great for being used for window installation or cladding, since they provide the employees with the desired mobility; they are also a great choice for window cleaning applications or exterior repairs.
Boom Trucks vs. Cranes
Boom trucks, bucket trucks and cherry pickers each refer to the class a kind of utility vehicle utilized specifically for vertical work. Generally, these kinds of trucks have a cab. It is here where the operator sits and operates the machinery. There is a bucket for where the worker could stand along with an actuator arm for lifting the boom and a winch for lifting.
Cherry pickers could lift personnel up to heights that were previously inaccessible. The cranes function is to lift both heavy supplies and equipment for one location to another. There are different types of cranes which could perform various purposes. Both of these different types of equipment excel at different tasks and are suitable for particular applications and finishing particular tasks.