Kinds of Boom Lifts or Construction Lifts
A boom lift is a piece of equipment which enables personnel to carry out tasks without having to construct a scaffolding. They are used to do maintenance work, to work on elevated structures and are common machinery found in warehouse and factory environment as well.
Boom lifts would normally provide powered and wheeled bases that could drive itself to the work place and have a platform on them to elevate the workers. There are many various kinds of lifts and every one is suitable to various jobs and settings.
Bucket Trucks
Bucket trucks, that are often referred to as "cherry-pickers", carry a long boom that has a bucket connected at the end. This bucket area is where an employee can stand. Commonly, bucket trucks are utilized by landscapers and by utility workers. Landscapers usually use these types of machines to cut trees.
Bucket trucks are equipped with a boom assembly which is mounted on a standard truck, and this means these lifts are able to travel on roads at normal traffic speeds. This mobility greatly increases the area they can effectively service. This is specially vital for power companies. Like for instance, a lot of these businesses use cherry pickers to raise workers up so they could work on and reach transmission lines. The buckets have to be regularly checked and properly insulated as they are working near possible shock hazards.
Articulated booms lifts or knuckle lifts have a work platform mounted to an arm that could bend and reach obstacles. The base of the lift includes a turntable and is capable of turning the lift in a complete circle. The base of the lift is mounted on wheels also for extra mobility.
Articulated boom lifts are used for landscaping projects and are useful for maintenance work on already-finished projects which do not require easy access to the area right underneath the jobsite. These lifts can be utilized for exterior electrical work and to repair piping, and difficult to clean areas. Often knuckle lifts are driven by the worker in the platform with the extended boom.