Kinds of Construction Lifts or Boom Lifts
Construction lifts are the equipment used to enable personnel to locate high-up places without constructing any scaffolding. They are used to do maintenance work, to work on elevated structures and are common machines found in factory and warehouse environment also.
Boom lifts can typically offer powered and wheeled bases that can drive itself to the work place and have a platform on them to lift the employees. There are lots of different types of lifts and every one is suitable to different jobs and settings.
Bucket Trucks
Bucket trucks or cherry pickers, are built with a long boom that has a bucket attached at the end. This bucket area is where a worker could stand. Commonly, bucket trucks are utilized by utility workers and by landscapers. Landscapers usually utilize these machinery to trim trees.
Each bucket truck has a boom assembly mounted to a regular truck, that enables these vehicles to move swiftly on regular roads. Also, this increases the area that this machinery could service effectively. This is particularly essential for power companies. For example, many of these businesses use cherry pickers to lift employees up so they could reach and work on transmission lines. The buckets have to be inspected regularly and properly insulated as they are working close to potential shock hazards.
Knuckle lifts or articulated boom lifts have a work platform mounted to an arm which can bend and reach obstacles. The base of the lift contains a turntable and is capable of turning the lift in a full circle. The base of the lift is mounted on wheels also for extra mobility.
Normally, the articulated boom lift is utilized for landscaping projects but is also handy for maintenance work on projects which are already completed. Projects that do not require easy access right beneath the jobsite. These lifts can be used for exterior electrical work and to repair piping, and areas that are difficult to clean. Usually knuckle lifts are driven by the worker in the platform with the extended boom.