Kinds of Man Lifts
Designed particularly to vertically raise employees to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help transport or raise workers form one place to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer steps or platforms and special handholds to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being carried out would decide precisely what kind of man lift will be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Based on Man and Material Lift Engineering, the man lift most preferred for working near electrocution hazards are electrically insulated man lifts. The electrically insulated man lifts offer protection to workers against accidental electrocution. These equipment follow the American National Standards Institute A92.2 Category C, 46kV Rated. These electrically insulated man lifts offer fiberglass insulated booms, are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses that serve to reduce ground fault and fiber optic control cables.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique equipment capable of transporting personnel vertically to difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor type of design of the folding supports that could raise and lower the platform. To be able to hoist the lift, each and every one of the folding supports is opened so as to extend the platform to higher heights.
The scissor lift would either be powered manually or hydraulically. The hydraulic powered system does not rely on power, however enables the scissor lifts to descend with only a release of hydraulic pressure. As the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from rapidly descending to the ground is eliminated, at the end of the day, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts.
Capacity
The man lift has a large range of weight capacities, with some man lifts capable of holding lots of people, while some models could only hold a single person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting many people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.