Types of Man Lifts
Designed specially to vertically lift personnel to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help move or raise employees form one place to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer special handholds and steps or platforms to provide safe transport. The kind of construction work being carried out will decide precisely which kind of man lift would be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a kind 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 personnel against accidental electrocution. These kind of equipment follow 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
Scissor lifts are a special kind of aerial man lift that is meant to transport workers vertically to hard-to-reach areas. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor kind of design of the folding supports that can lower and raise the platform. To be able to raise the lift, each one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
Scissor lifts could be either hydraulically or manually lifted. Hydraulic systems enable the scissor lifts to descend with only a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than depending on power. As the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground abruptly 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 several man lifts capable of holding a lot of individuals, while some models can only hold a single person. Scissor lifts and platform lifts are more beneficial for transporting many people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.