Types of Man Lifts
Designed specially to vertically lift personnel to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction business to help move or raise personnel form one place to another. Man lifts are power-driven and provide special handholds and steps or platforms to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being carried out would decide exactly what kind of man lift would be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
Electrically insulated man lifts are a kind of lift that is preferred for working in close proximity to electrocution hazards, according to Man and Material Lift Engineering. The electrically insulated man lifts provide protection to personnel against accidental electrocution. These kind of machines are in compliance with the American National Standards Institute A92.2 Category C, 46kV Rated. These electrically insulated man lifts provide fiberglass insulated booms, fiber optic control cables and are operated on nonconductive hydraulic hoses which serve to reduce ground fault.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique machinery capable of transporting workers vertically to difficult-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name because of the scissor kind of design of the folding supports that serve to raise and lower the platform. In order to raise the lift, each 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 allow the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure, rather than depending on power. Because the potential of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from descending to the ground rapidly 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 many people, while some models could only hold a single person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting many people, as boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.