Green-Tec Spider Lift Questions

Anyone have any experience with one of these?



Apparently we are getting one at work so just looking for any first hand knowledge.
I just ran one at a demo two weeks ago, it's a rebranded Easy Lift. The design is decent, but it's slow as molasses, and has three major design flaws that I found from a quick inspection:

Top of the boom, there's a plastic electrical box, if damaged the lift will shut down and you'll be stuck in the air.

Top of the fuel tank, lines and sending unit are exposed and will be easy to damage; hit it and you'll be stuck in the air.

Bottom of the front end, the muffler is the lowest and farthest thing forward, an inch from the oil pan, which is also low and unprotected. Be careful because you'll hit the muffler on your ramps or an incline, push it through the oil pan, and kill the engine.

Seems to run smoothly though, and the controls are ok, but it has a whole line of levers and requires your foot on a pedal to run the controls in the basket. Also, basket is run using the remote control clipped in to a holder, so no redundant controls if the remote fails. And good luck reaching the fall arrest attachment point, unless you're really tall or skinny and flexible.
 
I just ran one at a demo two weeks ago, it's a rebranded Easy Lift. The design is decent, but it's slow as molasses, and has three major design flaws that I found from a quick inspection:

Top of the boom, there's a plastic electrical box, if damaged the lift will shut down and you'll be stuck in the air.

Top of the fuel tank, lines and sending unit are exposed and will be easy to damage; hit it and you'll be stuck in the air.

Bottom of the front end, the muffler is the lowest and farthest thing forward, an inch from the oil pan, which is also low and unprotected. Be careful because you'll hit the muffler on your ramps or an incline, push it through the oil pan, and kill the engine.

Seems to run smoothly though, and the controls are ok, but it has a whole line of levers and requires your foot on a pedal to run the controls in the basket. Also, basket is run using the remote control clipped in to a holder, so no redundant controls if the remote fails. And good luck reaching the fall arrest attachment point, unless you're really tall or skinny and flexible.
Appreciate the input. My biggest concern is this will be a shared unit between multiple crews. Knowing the history of similar shared items, I suspect someone will crunch something important in the first 6 months. We'll see.
 
Appreciate the input. My biggest concern is this will be a shared unit between multiple crews. Knowing the history of similar shared items, I suspect someone will crunch something important in the first 6 months. We'll see.
With the design of that machine, I'm sure someone will. The engine start procedure is overly complicated too, I forgot about that. When someone complains that it starts and shuts back down every time they push the start switch, tell them to hold that switch for three seconds after the engine starts. Thats an issue I could see as a big nuisance for your mechanic.
 

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