Types of Man Lifts
Designed specially to vertically raise employees to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help transport or raise personnel form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer special handholds and steps or platforms to provide safe transport. The kind of construction work being performed would decide precisely which kind of man lift will be utilized in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a kind of lift which is preferred for working in close proximity to electrocution hazards, according to Man and Material Lift Engineering. The electrically insulated man lifts offer 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 provide fiberglass insulated booms, are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses which serve to reduce ground fault and fiber optic control cables.
Scissor Lifts
Scissor lifts are a special kind 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 type of design of the folding supports that can raise and lower the platform. In order to raise the lift, 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 just a release of hydraulic pressure, instead of depending on power. As the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground suddenly is eliminated, at the end of the day, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts.
Capacity
The man lift has a huge range of weight capacities, with some man lifts capable of holding lots of individuals, while some models could only hold a single individual. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting many individuals, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.