Types of Man Lifts
Designed specifically to vertically hoist employees to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help move or lift employees form one place 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 what kind of man lift will be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a type 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 equipment follow 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
Scissor lifts are a special type of aerial man lift that is meant to transport workers vertically to difficult-to-reach areas. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor kind of design of the folding supports that could lower and raise the platform. To be able to hoist the lift, each and every one of the folding supports is opened so as to extend the platform to higher heights.
Scissor lifts can be either manually or hydraulically lifted. Hydraulic systems enable the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than relying on power. Since the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground abruptly is eliminated, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts at the end of the day.
Capacity
The man lift has a huge range of weight capacities, with several man lifts capable of holding lots of people, while some models could only hold a single individual. Scissor lifts and platform lifts are more conducive for transporting lots of individuals, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.