Kinds of Man Lifts
Designed specifically to vertically lift employees to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help transport or raise workers form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer special handholds and platforms or steps to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being done will decide exactly what kind of man lift would be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
According to Man and Material Lift Engineering, the man lift most preferred for working near electrocution hazards are electrically insulated man lifts. The electrically insulated man lifts provide protection to personnel against accidental electrocution. These machinery are in compliance with the American National Standards Institute A92.2 Category C, 46kV Rated. These electrically insulated man lifts offer 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 employees vertically to difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name because of 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.
The scissor lift would either be powered hydraulically or manually. The hydraulic powered system does not depend on power, however enables the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure. As the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from suddenly descending to the ground 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 several man lifts capable of holding many individuals, while some models could only hold a single individual. Scissor lifts and platform lifts are more beneficial for transporting numerous individuals, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.