By Johnathan, American Rentals, Gowanus
The Genie GS-2632 is one of the 26-foot electric scissor lifts we rent most for Brooklyn interiors. It rolls through a standard doorway, runs quiet on batteries and leaves no marks on finished floors. The controls are simple once you have seen them, so here is a walk through before your first lift.
Before you turn it on
- Walk around the machine. Look for damaged cables, leaks, and anything stuck in the pothole guards under the chassis.
- Check the floor. You need firm, level ground. Look up for pipes, sprinkler heads and beams.
- Know where both red emergency stop buttons are: one on the platform box, one on the ground controls.
Meet the controls
There are two styles of control box on GS-2632s. Newer units have square green Lift and Drive buttons and a separate joystick. Older units have the joystick built into the top of the box. Pick yours below, then tap any button or the joystick.
Interactive: tap any control on the box. Switch between Current style and Older style to match your machine.
Step by step: going up
- At the ground controls, turn the key to platform and pull out the ground emergency stop.
- Climb in, close the gate and pull out the platform emergency stop. The red display shows the battery level.
- Press Lift. Squeeze and hold the trigger on the front of the joystick.
- Push the joystick toward the blue arrow to go up, toward the yellow arrow to come down. The further you push, the faster it moves.
Driving while raised
You can drive the GS-2632 with the platform up, but only at a crawl. Press Drive, squeeze the trigger and move the joystick slowly. Match the blue and yellow arrows on the control box to the ones on the chassis so you know which way you will travel.
If something goes wrong
A person on the ground can always bring the platform down. Turn the key to ground, then hold Enable and Down on the ground box until the platform is fully lowered.