Kinds of Construction Lifts or Boom Lifts
Construction lifts refer to the machines used to enable personnel to locate high-up places without building any scaffolding. They are utilized to work on elevated structures, to do maintenance work and are common equipment found in warehouse and factory settings as well.
Typically, construction lifts offer powered and wheeled bases which are capable of driving to the work location and have a platform on them that is responsible for lifting personnel. There are lots of different types of lifts and each one is suitable to different kinds of tasks 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 a worker can stand. Usually, bucket trucks are used by utility workers and by landscapers. Landscapers often use these machines to prune trees.
Bucket trucks are outfitted with a boom assembly which is mounted on a regular truck, and this means these lifts can travel on roads at regular traffic speeds. This mobility greatly increases the area they can effectively service. This is particularly essential for power companies. Like for instance, a lot of these companies utilize cherry pickers to lift workers up so they could work on and reach transmission lines. The buckets need to be regularly checked and properly insulated as they are working close to 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 complete circle. The base of the lift is mounted on wheels also for extra mobility.
Normally, the articulated boom lift is used for landscaping projects but is also handy for maintenance work on projects which are already completed. Projects which do not require easy access right beneath the jobsite. These lifts could be used for exterior electrical work and to repair piping, as well as areas that are difficult to clean. Normally knuckle lifts are driven by the worker in the platform with the boom extended.