Kinds of Man Lifts
Designed particularly to vertically raise personnel to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help move or raise personnel form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide 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 will be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a kind of lift that is preferred for working in close proximity to electrocution hazards, based on Man and Material Lift Engineering. The electrically insulated man lifts provide protection to personnel against accidental electrocution. These machinery 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 which serve to reduce ground fault.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique machinery capable of transporting personnel vertically to difficult-to-reach areas. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor type of design of the folding supports that could raise and lower the platform. In order to raise the lift, each one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
Scissor lifts can be either manually or hydraulically lifted. Hydraulic systems allow the scissor lifts to descend with only a release of hydraulic pressure, instead of relying on power. Since the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground rapidly 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 a lot of individuals, while some models can only hold a single person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more conducive for transporting numerous people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.