Kinds of Man Lifts
Scissor man lifts are made to vertically raise workers to higher areas. They are often seen in the construction industry in order to transport or raise personnel form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide steps or platforms and special handholds to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being carried out would decide exactly which type of man lift will be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
According to 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 workers against accidental electrocution. These equipment follow 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 that serve to reduce ground fault.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique machine capable of transporting workers vertically to difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name because of the scissor kind of design of the folding supports that could lower and raise the platform. To be able to hoist the lift, each one of the folding supports is opened so as 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, rather than depending on power. As the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from suddenly descending to the ground 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 certain man lifts capable of holding many individuals, while some models could only hold a single person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more conducive for transporting a lot of individuals, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.