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Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also known as an aerial device, elevating work platform (EWP), aerial lift, cherry picker, bucket truck or mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.
After World War II, turntable ladders were supplemented by the aerial work platform (sometimes called "cherry picker"), a platform or bucket attached onto a mechanically bending arm (or "snorkel") installed onto a fire truck. While these could not reach the height of similar turntable ladders, the platforms could extend into previously ...
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
Other vernacular names are the green cherry-picker, green dick or green linnet. The yellow-throated honeyeater was previously placed in the genus Lichenostomus , but was moved to Nesoptilotis after a molecular phylogenetic analysis, published in 2011, showed that the original genus was polyphyletic .
A cherry pitter is a device for removing the pit from a cherry, leaving the cherry relatively intact. Many styles of cherry pitters exist, including small tools held in the hand, domestic crank-operated machines with a hopper, and industrial machines.
"Cherry-picking" a source is selecting only the information favourable to an editor's point of view for an article, without seeing the true meaning of the source. Likewise, some people will select only red cherries or dark purple cherries from a farm.
Lee Child and Tom Cruise attend the fan screening of "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back", on October 16, 2016. (Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures)
The Cherry Picker (also known as The Quiet Life), is a 1972 British drama film directed by Peter Curran and starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Spike Milligan, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Robert Hutton. [1] [2] The screenplay was by Curran based on the 1968 novel Pick Up Sticks by Mickey Phillips.