Types of Man Lifts
Designed specially to vertically raise personnel to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help move or lift personnel 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 performed would decide precisely what kind of man lift will be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a kind of lift which 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 kind of machines are in compliance with the American National Standards Institute A92.2 Category C, 46kV Rated. These electrically insulated man lifts provide fiberglass insulated booms, are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses that serve to reduce ground fault and fiber optic control cables.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique equipment capable of transporting employees vertically to difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor kind of design of the folding supports which could lower and raise the platform. In order to hoist the lift, each and every one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
The scissor lift would either be powered manually or hydraulically. The hydraulic powered system does not rely on power, however allows the scissor lifts to descend with only a release of hydraulic pressure. As the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from rapidly descending to the ground is eliminated, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts at the end of the day.
Capacity
The man lift has a large range of weight capacities, with several man lifts capable of holding a lot of people, while some models could only hold a single person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting lots of individuals, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.