Kinds of Man Lifts
Designed specially to vertically hoist 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 platforms or steps and special handholds to provide safe transport. The kind of construction work being performed would decide exactly what type 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 type of machinery follow 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 that serve to reduce ground fault.
Scissor Lifts
The scissor lift is a unique machine capable of transporting employees vertically to difficult-to-reach areas. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor kind of design of the folding supports which serve to lower and raise the platform. In order to hoist the lift, every one of the folding supports is opened in order to extend the platform to higher heights.
The scissor lift would either be powered manually or hydraulically. The hydraulic powered system does not rely on power, however allows the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure. As the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from abruptly descending to the ground 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 several man lifts capable of holding a lot of individuals, while some models could only hold a single individual. Scissor lifts and platform lifts are more beneficial for transporting many people, because boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.