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Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also an aerial device, aerial lift, boom lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, elevating work platform (EWP), mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), or scissor lift, is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.
Cherry picking is also a strategy in videogames that simulate basketball. [5] Analogs to cherry picking exist in other sports: Cherry picking in water polo is called "sea-gulling". Similar to the strategy in basketball, a swimmer of the defensive team remains on his or her offensive end and awaits a pass once teammates regain the ball.
A cherry picker is a platform for lifting someone to work at a high level. Cherry picker may also refer to: An engine crane, a cantilevered tool for installing or removing the engine block from a vehicle; Glenbuck Cherrypickers F.C., a former Scottish football club; The Cherry Picker, a 1974 British drama film
[7] [8] The research is still in full progress, especially as the robots need to be carefully designed so that they do not bruise the fruit while picking. [9] One solution is the use of suction grippers. [10] Citrus fruit robot pickers have thus far been the focus of research and development, but cherry pickers are also being researched. [11]
Angle trisection is the construction, using only a straightedge and a compass, of an angle that is one-third of a given arbitrary angle. This is impossible in the general case. For example, the angle 2 π /5 radians (72° = 360°/5) can be trisected, but the angle of π /3 radians (60°) cannot be trisected. [8]
At 20 years and 4 months old, Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick. Tyson's record still stands to this day.
A 36 in (910 mm) reach extender with a secondary trigger and a pole that can be rotated 90 degrees. A reach extender (or reacher, grabber arm, helping hand, trash picker, picker-upper, extended gripper, long arm gripper, extended reach grabber, grabber tool, litter picker, or caliper) is a handheld mechanical tool used to increase the range of a person's reach and grasp when grabbing objects.
Loafing, floating, or cherry picking in ice hockey is a manoeuver in which a player, the floater (usually a forward, but occasionally a defenceman who used to play the forward position, but can no longer skate the complete length of the ice at pace), literally loafs — spends time in idleness [1] — or casually skates behind the opposing team's unsuspecting defencemen while they are in their ...