Cherry Pickers.

Leyland Worldmaster · 2nd April 2012, 10:59

Why are they called cherry pickers? Was it originally designed with this purpose in mind? I don't like the name anyway as I really fancy some cherries or cherry Bakewells every time I hear it! Any answers much appreciated!

pab · 2nd April 2012, 11:16

Cherry picker is just a nick name they acquired,other concertina type platforms have been known as magic carpets.

The correct terminology would be a Sky Jack or a Scissor lift,they come in a variety of different heights,electric or the more robust Diesel engined types.

Brigus · 2nd April 2012, 11:17

I could be wrong but I think cherry pickers were first developed in British Columbia for fruit picking...

(if you call them articulated booms it won't make you hungry)

windrush · 2nd April 2012, 12:48

I think that there was a regiment in the British Army call the Cherry Pickers

sikelsh · 2nd April 2012, 13:06

Cherry Pickers are lazy folk who do just enough but take the credit, i.e. the ones that take the Cherry of a cake (the credit) with doing little work.

So maybe the name came from making work easier?

Ken · 2nd April 2012, 14:02

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Originally Posted by windrush

I think that there was a regiment in the British Army call the Cherry Pickers

The Cherry Pickers - 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons (as the regiment was then named) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain)

Wouldn't have happened in the R.A.F. would it Derek

You lot would have had them picked, cooked into a pie and sold to the yanks before the enemy had got up!

windrush · 2nd April 2012, 14:16

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Originally Posted by Ken

The Cherry Pickers - 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons (as the regiment was then named) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain)

Wouldn't have happened in the R.A.F. would it Derek

You lot would have had them picked, cooked into a pie and sold to the yanks before the enemy had got up!

Thanks Ken For that no the RAF would have got some one
else to pick them

change of subject, Tomorrow I am off to the Wellington Centre
in Aldershot for the unveiling of the Drummer Boy who was
in the Hampshire's at the battle of Waterloo.

if you google Drummer Boy Royal Hampshire Regiment you will see
all about it

Ken · 2nd April 2012, 14:33

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Originally Posted by windrush

Thanks Ken For that no the RAF would have got some one
else to pick them

change of subject, Tomorrow I am off to the Wellington Centre
in Aldershot for the unveiling of the Drummer Boy who was
in the Hampshire's at the battle of Waterloo.

if you google Drummer Boy Royal Hampshire Regiment you will see
all about it

Nice to see the drummer boy being removed from storage Derek. My grandad was in the Hampshires and my Mum was born in Aldershot when he was serving. He fought in WW1 in Gallipoli until he was wounded home and once fit went back to the front and got wounded again. He then served in WW2 but not sure where.

Sorry back on topic...........

Leyland Worldmaster · 2nd April 2012, 14:49

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Originally Posted by Ken

Nice to see the drummer boy being removed from storage Derek. My grandad was in the Hampshires and my Mum was born in Aldershot when he was serving. He fought in WW1 in Gallipoli until he was wounded home and once fit went back to the front and got wounded again. He then served in WW2 but not sure where.

Sorry back on topic...........

Please carry on Ken! Really very interesting!

Ken · 2nd April 2012, 15:54

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Originally Posted by leopard680

Please carry on Ken! Really very interesting!

Nothing else to say really apart from the fact he had two bullet wounds which used to fascinate me when I was a kid. One in his shoulder and the other in his elbow. I asked him time and time again to tell me what happened as a kid would but he never told me a thing.

Two years ago I found out his brother was killed in Flanders so perhaps that's why he never spoke of WW1

He was a nice old guy who died two days before the first moon landing

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Brigus Loves to post Rover 75 Club CDT Tourer Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Aberdeen Posts: 423 Thanks: 24 Thanked 15 Times in 12 Posts	I could be wrong but I think cherry pickers were first developed in British Columbia for fruit picking... (if you call them articulated booms it won't make you hungry)