Types of Man Lifts
Designed particularly to vertically lift workers to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help transport or raise workers form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide special handholds and platforms or steps to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being done will decide exactly which kind of man lift would be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
According to Man and Material Lift Engineering, the man lift most preferred for working near electrocution hazards are electrically insulated man lifts. The electrically insulated man lifts offer protection to personnel against accidental electrocution. These type of equipment are in compliance with 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 error.
Scissor Lifts
Scissor lifts are a special type of aerial man lift that is meant to transport workers vertically to difficult-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 one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
Scissor lifts could be either hydraulically or manually lifted. Hydraulic systems allow the scissor lifts to descend with only a release of hydraulic pressure, instead of relying on power. Since the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from suddenly descending to the ground is eliminated, at the end of the day, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts.
Capacity
Man lifts are designed in a huge range of weight capacities. Certain man lifts have the capability to only hold numerous people while others have the ability to hold one person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more conducive for transporting a lot of people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.