Gravity Gate; Guardrails; Enable Switch; Enable Switch (Foot) - Option - Snorkel MHP1335 Operation Manual

2. Safety Devices

Gravity gate

Figure 2.4 - Gravity Gates
The grav ity gates are the places in the plat form
guard rail sys tem where you should en ter and leave
the plat form. Raise the gate where you wish to en -
ter and step un der it onto the plat form. Once you
have en tered the plat form and at tached your safety
har ness lan yard to an an chor point, check to see
that the grav ity gate has fallen back into place.

Guardrails

Figure 2.5 - Guardrails
The guardrails help protect you from falling off the
platform. Be sure the guardrails are properly
installed and that the gravity gate or swinging gate
is in place.

Enable switch

The en able switch must be op er ated in con junc tion
with the boom/plat form mov ing func tion you se lect.
The pur pose of this switch is to pre vent the plat form
from mov ing if some thing or some one ac ci den tally
pushes one of the boom/plat form mov ing con trols.
There are en able switches fit ted to both the Up per
and Lower Con trol Boxes.
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UPPER
BOOM
LOWER
BOOM
SLEW
13371-3 REV A
FUEL
ELECTRIC
Figure 2.6 - Enable Switch, Platform Control
SPEED
LOWER
BOOM
ENABLE
PLATFORM
ON
Figure 2.7 - Enable Switch, Ground Control

Enable switch (foot) - Option

Figure 2.8 - Enable Switch, Foot
The foot switch performs the same function as the
standard enable switch described above. Stepping
on the foot switch is an action that must be
performed, at the same time as another action, to
make the platform move.
Rev C MHP13/35 & MHP15/44 V3 – 13619-1
LIFT
ENABLE
lb
kg
JIB
BOOM
ROTATE
PLATFORM
SPEED
START CHOKE EMERGENCY LOWER ENABLE
Box
UPPER JIB
BOOM
BOOM
lb
kg
LIFT
ENABLE
SLEW
FUEL BOOMS
Box
13371-2