scissor lifts
Crisscrossing aerial platforms
Scissor lifts are work platforms that raise and lower on a crisscrossing metal support structure—the X-shaped framework resembles scissors opening and closing.
They provide stable elevated access for maintenance, construction, or warehouse work: The crew used a scissor lift to change the ceiling lights.
Unlike boom lifts, they move only vertically.
- hydraulicsStudy of pressurized liquids
- elevationHeight above reference point
- verticalityState of being upright
- jacksChildren's ball-and-pieces game
- mechanismMeans by which something operates
battery powered · safety harnesses · platform · mast · rough terrain · heighten · load capacity · fall protection · construction sites · warehouse floor · reach · raised up · work platform · mobile · hoists · forklifts · OSHA · mechanical advantage
- material handlingforklifts, conveyors, carrying, cranes, loading
- heavy equipmentexcavator, excavators, bulldozers, loader, backhoe
- stagecraftstage left, stage right, center stage, downstage, upstage
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