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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.
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 ...
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
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.
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 ...
The club started its existence in the early 1870s as Glenbuck Athletic, founded by Edward and William Bone, with a strip of white jersey and black shorts.The name "Cherrypickers" is of obscure origin, beginning as a nickname in the first years of the 20th century, but may have derived from local men from Glenbuck or Muirkirk serving in the 11th Hussars (The "Cherry Pickers") in the Boer War.
Winemaker Jean-Louis Chave uses fruit from growers he knows well for this polished red: Think sleek black cherry and plum fruit with savory black olive notes. Food & Wine / Domaine de la Janasse.
Most shows later in the tour featured a cherry picker and the release of hundreds of balloons at the show's end. [6] During the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum [7] stops on the tour, the band played a Friday and Sunday show and USC had a football game in between on Saturday. As a televised football game, viewers could see the full stage set-up ...