Types of Man Lifts
Designed specifically to vertically lift personnel to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help transport or lift employees form one place to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide special handholds and platforms or steps to provide safe transport. The kind of construction work being performed would decide exactly what kind of man lift will be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a type of lift which is preferred for working near electrocution hazards, based on Man and Material Lift Engineering. The electrically insulated man lifts provide protection to personnel against accidental electrocution. These type 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, 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 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 and every 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 only a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than depending on power. Because the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground suddenly 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 some man lifts capable of holding lots of individuals, while some models could only hold a single person. Scissor lifts and platform lifts are more conducive for transporting many people, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.