Types of Man Lifts
Designed specifically to vertically lift workers to higher places, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help transport or lift employees form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer steps or platforms and special handholds to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being carried out will decide precisely what kind of man lift would be utilized 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 workers against accidental electrocution. These machines 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 fault 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 difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name because of the scissor type of design of the folding supports which can raise and lower the platform. To be able to raise the lift, each 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 only a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than depending on power. As the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground rapidly 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 several man lifts capable of holding lots of individuals, while some models can only hold a single person. Scissor lifts and platform lifts are more beneficial for transporting numerous people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.