Kinds of Man Lifts
Designed particularly to vertically hoist employees to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help move or raise workers 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 done would decide precisely what kind of man lift would be used 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 provide protection to workers against accidental electrocution. These kind of 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, 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 equipment capable of transporting personnel vertically to hard-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, every one of the folding supports is opened so as to extend the platform to higher heights.
Scissor lifts can be either hydraulically or manually lifted. Hydraulic systems allow the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than relying on power. As the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from abruptly 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 several man lifts capable of holding lots of individuals, while some models could only hold a single individual. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting lots of people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.