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2. Aerial work platform - Wikipedia

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   An aerial work platform (AWP), also an aerial device, aerial lift, boom lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, elevating work platform (EWP), mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), or scissor lift, is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height. There are various distinct ...

3. Haulotte Group - Wikipedia

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   Haulotte Scissor Lift. Pinguely and Haulotte were both taken over by the steel conglomerate Creusot-Loire. Creusot-Loire went bankrupt in 1984, and the future of Pinguely and Haulotte was in doubt. In 1985, both companies were bought by Pierre Saubot. Saubot had spotted a new market for aerial work platforms, and that work was assigned to Haulotte.

4. Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane - Wikipedia

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   Originally a Sikorsky Aircraft product, the type certificate and manufacturing rights were purchased from them by Erickson Air-Crane in 1992. Since that time, Erickson Air-Crane has become the manufacturer and world's largest operator of S-64 Aircranes and has made over 1,350 changes to the airframe, instrumentation, and payload capabilities of the helicopter.

5. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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   A jib crane is a type of crane - not to be confused with a crane rigged with a jib to extend its main boom - where a horizontal member (jib or boom), supporting a moveable hoist, is fixed to a wall or to a floor-mounted pillar. Jib cranes are used in industrial premises and on military vehicles.

6. Chairlift - Wikipedia

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   The patent was titled "Aerial Ski Tramway,' U.S. patent 2,152,235. W. Averell Harriman, Sun Valley's creator and former governor of New York State, financed the project. [24] [25] Mont Tremblant, Quebec opens in February 1938 with the first Canadian chairlift, built by Joseph Ryan. [26] The ski lift had 4,200 feet of cable and took 250 skiers ...

7. Aerial lift - Wikipedia

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   An aerial lift, [1] also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables. Aerial lift systems are frequently employed in a mountainous territory where roads are relatively difficult to build and use, and have seen extensive ...