Kinds of Boom Lifts or Construction Lifts
Construction lifts are the equipment utilized to enable personnel to go to high-up places without constructing any scaffolding. They are utilized to work on elevated structures, to do maintenance work and are common machinery found in warehouse and factory settings too.
Boom lifts would typically provide wheeled and powered bases which could drive itself to the work place and have a platform on them to lift the employees. There are many different kinds of lifts and each and every one is suited to different tasks and settings.
Bucket Trucks
Cherry pickers or bucket trucks, are built with a long boom which has a bucket attached at the end. This bucket area is where a worker can stand. Commonly, bucket trucks are utilized by landscapers and by utility workers. Landscapers normally use these machinery to prune trees.
Every bucket truck has a boom assembly mounted to a regular truck, that enables these vehicles to move fast on regular roads. In addition, this increases the area that this equipment could service efficiently. This is particularly important for power companies. Like 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 checked regularly and well insulated as they are working near possible 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 includes 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 utilized for landscaping projects and are useful for maintenance work on already-completed projects that do not require easy access to the area directly below the jobsite. These lifts can be utilized to repair piping or exterior electrical work, as well as difficult to clean areas. Normally knuckle lifts are driven by the worker in the platform with the extended boom.