Work platform for the loader.

[ruffdog]

No harness?????

 

[oosik]

ruffdog - as I remember, there was no form of safety harness involved. Subsequently they(the company) did come up with a harness arrangement. It involved strapping off to the overhead piping, as I remember and not to the hydraulic lift. After that situation, I seriously doubt that the company could have got anybody to harness themselves to any hydraulic lift. When that lift came down it made a real mess. Hydraulic fluid everywhere and parts of the scissor arm assembly broken and scattered everywhere - it wasn't pretty.

 

[crazyal]

In most cases OSHA requires you to have a safety harness attached to the lift as falling out of the lift is a much bigger threat than hydraulic failure. The simple fact is that most common cause of injury and death from falling involves ladders. I understand other people have different experiences and concerns but a hydraulic hose failure is no more sudden or dangerous than a ladder footing giving way.

 

[FTG-05]

In most cases OSHA requires you to have a safety harness attached to the lift as falling out of the lift is a much bigger threat than hydraulic failure. The simple fact is that most common cause of injury and death from falling involves ladders. I understand other people have different experiences and concerns but a hydraulic hose failure is no more sudden or dangerous than a ladder footing giving way.

And that's why I built my work platform. To mitigate the hydraulic failure issue, I put a 4x4 timber under one of the lift arms; the same one I use when I need to lift the FEL to service my tractor.

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[franklin2]

A lot of those manlifts are considered mobile scaffolds. If they have the proper height railing all the way around, OSHA does not require a harness, though your company can require one.

Hydraulic cylinders for personnel lifting also have orifices screwed directly in the cylinder to control the fall speed if a hose does fail. But that is not going to stop a mechanical failure, which is what sounds like happened in the previous story of the guy hanging on the conduit. If the lift was "in pieces" below him.

 

[bigdeano]

Try not to hit the end of the lift stroke when someone is on the loader platform. The spike in pressure would be the most likely cause of a hose failure.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Pallet forks with a matching grapple, it does everything two separate tools will do. Add a apple box and you have a GREAT platform to work from,

The grapple locks it into place so it's safe, it get's used for a lot of jobs around here...

SR

 

[hslogger]

My variation on a familiar theme. This one is held together with c clamps because it offers me another level. I can run it with just the bottom basket or the top basket fastened to the bottom. It works just great for us. I hold it fast to my forks with either straps or chain and binder. It is so handy for everything including a cleaning of the owl box at the end of fledging.