Kinds of Man Lifts
Scissor man lifts are made to vertically hoist personnel to higher places. They are commonly seen in the construction business in order to transport or lift employees form one place to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide special handholds and steps or platforms to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being carried out will decide precisely what type 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 in close proximity to electrocution hazards are electrically insulated man lifts. The electrically insulated man lifts offer protection to employees 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, fiber optic control cables and are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses which serve to reduce ground fault.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique equipment capable of transporting personnel vertically to difficult-to-reach areas. The scissor lift derived its name because of the scissor type of design of the folding supports that can raise and lower the platform. To be able to hoist the lift, each and every one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
Scissor lifts could be either manually or hydraulically lifted. Hydraulic systems allow the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure, instead of depending on power. As the possibility 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 huge range of weight capacities, with some man lifts capable of holding lots of people, while some models can only hold a single individual. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more conducive for transporting lots of people, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.