Kinds of Man Lifts
Designed specially to vertically raise personnel to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help transport or raise personnel form one place to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide platforms or steps and special handholds to provide safe transport. The kind of construction work being carried out would decide exactly what kind of man lift would be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a type of lift which is preferred for working near electrocution hazards, based on Man and Material Lift Engineering. The electrically insulated man lifts offer protection to workers against accidental electrocution. These equipment are in compliance with the American National Standards Institute A92.2 Category C, 46kV Rated. These electrically insulated man lifts provide fiberglass insulated booms, fiber optic control cables and are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses which serve to reduce ground error.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique machinery capable of transporting employees vertically to hard-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor type of design of the folding supports which can lower and raise the platform. In order to hoist the lift, each one of the folding supports is opened so as to extend the platform to higher heights.
The scissor lift will either be powered hydraulically or manually. 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 descending to the ground rapidly is eliminated, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts at the end of the day.
Capacity
The man lift has a huge range of weight capacities, with some man lifts capable of holding a lot of people, while some models could only hold a single individual. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting a lot of individuals, as boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.