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 personnel form one location to another. Man lifts are power-driven and offer platforms or steps and special handholds to provide safe transport. The type of construction work being performed will decide precisely what kind of man lift will be used in a project.
Electrically Insulated Man Lifts
According to Man and Material Lift Engineering, the man lift most preferred for working in close proximity to electrocution hazards are electrically insulated man lifts. The electrically insulated man lifts provide protection to employees against accidental electrocution. These kind of machinery 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 which serve to reduce ground fault.
Scissor Lifts
Scissor lifts are a special kind of aerial man lift that 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 that serve to 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.
The scissor lift will either be powered manually or hydraulically. The hydraulic powered system does not depend on power, however enables the scissor lifts to descend with just a release of hydraulic pressure. As the potential 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 huge range of weight capacities, with several man lifts capable of holding a lot of people, while some models could only hold a single person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting a lot of people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.