Types of Construction Lifts or Boom Lifts
A boom lift is a piece of equipment which enables workers to carry out jobs without having to construct a scaffolding. They are utilized to do maintenance work, to work on elevated structures and are common machines found in warehouse and factory environment as well.
Boom lifts will normally offer powered and wheeled bases which could drive itself to the work location and have a platform on them to lift the personnel. There are many different kinds of lifts and each and every one is suitable to different jobs and environment.
Bucket Trucks
Bucket trucks or cherry pickers, are built with a long boom that has a bucket connected at the end. This bucket area is where an employee could stand. Commonly, bucket trucks are utilized by landscapers and by utility workers. Landscapers often use these machinery to cut trees.
Bucket trucks are outfitted with a boom assembly which is mounted on a regular truck, and this means these lifts could travel on roads at normal traffic speeds. This mobility really increases the area they could effectively service. This is specially vital for power companies. Like for example, many of these businesses utilize cherry pickers to lift workers up so they could work on and reach transmission lines. The buckets should be inspected frequently and well insulated since they are working near possible shock hazards.
Articulated booms lifts or knuckle lifts have a work platform mounted to an arm that could bend and reach obstacles. The base of the lift contains a turntable and could turn the lift in a full circle. The base of the lift is mounted on wheels as well for extra mobility.
Articulated boom lifts are used for landscaping projects and are handy for maintenance work on already-finished projects that do not need easy access to the area directly below the jobsite. These lifts could be utilized for exterior electrical work and to repair piping, as well as hard to clean areas. Usually knuckle lifts are driven by the employee in the platform with the extended boom.