Something cruise ships need
Sep 1, 2020, 4:42 pm
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Something cruise ships need
With social distancing requirements and elevators that were slow and inadequate in number to begin with, I wonder if cruise sips should be retrofitted with these:
It'll be a lot faster than long waits for slow rides. I guess another reason why I liked cruising on Ponant's Le Soleal - only 5 levels between bottom (restaurant) and top (aft bar) so the two elevators for pax wasn't necessary (only one staircase for pax towards the aft was a bit annoying though). .
The first (and actually, only) time I've seen one in action was at a valet parking garage in Reno. Surprised it got past OSHA but they've apparently been in use for a century and a quarter.
It'll be a lot faster than long waits for slow rides. I guess another reason why I liked cruising on Ponant's Le Soleal - only 5 levels between bottom (restaurant) and top (aft bar) so the two elevators for pax wasn't necessary (only one staircase for pax towards the aft was a bit annoying though). .
The first (and actually, only) time I've seen one in action was at a valet parking garage in Reno. Surprised it got past OSHA but they've apparently been in use for a century and a quarter.
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Sep 2, 2020, 5:42 pm
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That's why I mentioned I was surprised that thing got past OSHA. The belt manlift I saw in Reno was working a lot faster than the videos shown.
Here's the uses a current manufacturer lists:
Undoubtedly but it'll make it easier/faster for the rest of us.
Here's the uses a current manufacturer lists:
Common Uses for a Manlift:
- Alternative energy windmills
- Automobile parking garages
- Bakeries
- Breweries
- Can and carton plants
- Cement, gravel, rock and sand processing
- Chemical plants
- Dairy processing plants
- Dehydrating plants
- Distilleries
- Ethanol plants
- Factories
- Feed mills
- Flour mills
- Glass manufacturing plants
- Grain elevators
- Hydrocarbon processing plants
- Malting plants
- Meat packing plants
- Mines and quarries
- Oil refineries
- Paper and pulp mills
- Power plants
- Rice mills
- Salt processing plants
- Seed handling and processing plants
- Ships and shipyards
- Soap products plants
- Soybean mills
- Sugar refineries
- Warehouses
- Waste incineration facilities
If a person can't use the stairs because of mobility problem, I don't think he/she should step on to this thing...
Sep 3, 2020, 12:46 am
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Similar to Paternoster lifts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift which don't have the best modern safety record. I can barely navigate the hallway when there are rough seas...
Sep 3, 2020, 8:12 am
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Similar to Paternoster lifts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift which don't have the best modern safety record. I can barely navigate the hallway when there are rough seas...
Sep 3, 2020, 9:24 am
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Similar to Paternoster lifts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift which don't have the best modern safety record. I can barely navigate the hallway when there are rough seas...