JLG offers the 600 Series of articulating booms. These units feature an optional narrow chassis for access to tight areas. The 600 Series features the industry's best work envelope; 26 feet, 7 inches or 8.1 m up and over height and a horizontal outreach of 12.12 m or 39 feet, 9 inches. These types of machines offer dual rated capacities of 1000 pounds and 500 pounds too. Combined with a 60 foot platform height, these units would offer you with the reach capacity and the strength you require regardless of what type of task needs to be done.
To give you excellent performance and drive on rough terrain, these articulating booms are available with standard oscillating axle and optional 4-wheel drive. Offering unmatched agility and tight spaces, are the optional 4-wheel steer and 3-position switch. The platform controls are improved and have been redesigned so as to be smoother for job site productivity and offer more controlled operation.
Raising Safety Standards for Aircraft Maintenance
The Model 740AJ is the best machinery for working on any size of aircraft. This unit offers 22.6 m or 74 feet of height and more than fifteen m or fifty one feet of outreach. It includes many safety features that you need when performing maintenance. The Fall Arrest platform can be included so as to enable you to exit the platform and move a complete 270 degrees around the platform in a radius of 6 feet, and still have fall protection whilst doing so.
The Soft Touch System is a different feature option that will help to lessen any damage to the equipment or risk of any accidental contact during aircraft maintenance. This package option provides a suspended padded rail that surrounds the platform basket. There are proximity sensors that de-activate platform movement functions and the driver is warned if the basket comes too close to the aircraft surface.
Benefits
The articulating jib will allow the operator better access and positioning to all external surfaces on any kind of aircraft. This jib can be utilized in both uncontrolled and controlled areas because of steady winds, jet blast standards of 80 mph and 90 mph gusts. An on-board air compressor option enables for pneumatic-powered hand tools to be used. The Fall Arrest adds safety when performing maintenance outside of the platform.
JLG has made many of these feature options in order to make the driver as safe as possible and to increase overall efficiency of the machinery.