Safety

At it's core the Lobster is a piece of safety equipment. The Lobster is designed to remove operators from the often injury causing physical exertion associated with cable bolt installation. So as not to introduce new safety issues, the Lobster has a number of built in safety functions including:

1. Hydraulic latching on the pinch function- to positively hold the cable bolt without operator input until it is in a safe place (e.g. in the dolly) for release.
2. Two hand control - In order to feed the cable bolt the operator is required to use both hands, this reduces the chances of any free hand entanglement.
3. Emergency stop - as the Lobster is fully integrated with the host machine any emergency hydraulic stop will also stop the Lobster.