Quick answer
Machine weight is only half the question. A floor cares about how that weight is concentrated: the wheel or track contact, any outrigger feet, and the people and materials on the platform. A slab on ground is usually straightforward. A suspended floor, mezzanine, car park deck or anything over a basement needs the building owner or a structural engineer to confirm it. We supply the machine figures; we cannot certify your floor.
Four different numbers
People ask “how heavy is it?” and mean the floor. These are four separate figures, and only the first is on every specification sheet:
- Machine weight: the whole machine, empty, from the manufacturer sheet.
- Wheel or track load: how much of that weight sits on each wheel or track, and over what contact area. Some manufacturers publish it; many do not.
- Point load: machines that stand on outriggers or stabilisers put their weight on a few small feet.
- Platform load: the people, tools and materials on the deck, up to the rated capacity, added on top.
A heavy machine with a wide footprint can be kinder to a floor than a lighter one on small wheels. Spreading the load is not the same as reducing it, so the total still matters.
Our fleet weights
Figures are read from the manufacturer specification held on each machine record. "Confirm" means the sheet on file does not state that figure; we confirm it at quote rather than estimate it. Fleet data last updated 24 September 2026.
Where a figure reads “Confirm”, the record does not hold it yet and we will read it off the sheet for you. We never estimate it.
Slab on ground or suspended floor
A concrete slab poured on the ground is the usual case for an electric scissor lift, and it rarely needs more than a look for soft spots, pits and service covers. A suspended floor is different: a level above another, a mezzanine, a car park deck, a floor over a basement or a loading dock. Its capacity was set by an engineer, and only the building owner or an engineer can tell you whether a machine and its load fit inside it.
What to ask the building owner, in writing
- The rated floor load for the area the machine will stand and travel on.
- Whether any part of the route is a different structure: ramps, joins, a goods lift car or a transfer slab.
- Any spreader plates or protection the building requires.
- For a goods lift: the car capacity, the clear door opening and the car depth. The goods lift guide covers this.
What we provide
The machine weight, its overall width and length, its platform capacity and any wheel or contact figures the manufacturer publishes, from the sheet held for that machine. We do not assess or certify a floor, and a figure we do not hold is shown as missing, not guessed.
Next step
Compare widths and weights on electric scissor lifts or narrow scissor lifts, check the route with the site access checklist, then send the floor details with your quote.