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Types of Man Lifts

Designed particularly to vertically hoist workers to higher areas, scissor lifts are common in the construction industry to help transport or raise workers form one place 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 carried out would 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 in close proximity to electrocution hazards are electrically insulated man lifts. The electrically insulated man lifts offer protection to personnel against accidental electrocution. These machinery 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 that serve to reduce ground error.



Scissor Lifts

Scissor lifts are a special kind of aerial man lift that is meant to transport employees vertically to hard-to-reach places. The scissor lift derived its name due to the scissor type of design of the folding supports that could lower and raise the platform. To be able to hoist 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 just a release of hydraulic pressure, instead of depending on power. As the possibility of mechanical malfunctions preventing the platform from abruptly descending to the ground is eliminated, at the end of the day, hydraulic systems make safer scissor lifts.



Capacity

Man lifts are designed in a huge range of weight capacities. Certain man lifts have the capability to only hold many people while others have the ability to hold one person. Platform lifts and scissor lifts are more beneficial for transporting lots of people, since boom lifts have less space located in their bucket.

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