Types of Man Lifts
Designed particularly to vertically raise employees to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help move or lift employees form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide platforms or steps and special handholds to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being done would decide exactly which kind of man lift would 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 workers against accidental electrocution. These type of equipment follow 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 that serve to reduce ground error and fiber optic control cables.
Scissor Lifts
Scissor lifts are a special type of aerial man lift which is meant to transport personnel vertically to hard-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor kind of design of the folding supports that can raise and lower the platform. To be able to hoist the lift, each and every one of the folding supports is opened in order 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 just a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than relying on power. Because the potential 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 certain 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 numerous people, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.