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  • Fowler/The Wall Street Journal Decorating begins around Thanksgiving, and requires a 65-foot cherrypicker to place the star on the top of the 50-foot Norfolk Island Pine.

    Going Crazy With Christmas Decorations 2011

  • Fowler/The Wall Street Journal A 65-foot cherrypicker is needed to place the star on the top of the tree.

    Going Crazy With Christmas Decorations 2011

  • A column can be a backhoe to unearth buried wrongs, a jackhammer to shatter crooked politicians, a street sweeper to clean up a community mess, a steamroller to help pave a new street, a cherrypicker to put up a desperately needed traffic light.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • A column can be a backhoe to unearth buried wrongs, a jackhammer to shatter crooked politicians, a street sweeper to clean up a community mess, a steamroller to help pave a new street, a cherrypicker to put up a desperately needed traffic light.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • A column can be a backhoe to unearth buried wrongs, a jackhammer to shatter crooked politicians, a street sweeper to clean up a community mess, a steamroller to help pave a new street, a cherrypicker to put up a desperately needed traffic light.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • A column can be a backhoe to unearth buried wrongs, a jackhammer to shatter crooked politicians, a street sweeper to clean up a community mess, a steamroller to help pave a new street, a cherrypicker to put up a desperately needed traffic light.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

  • So this morning I see a Parks & Rec cherrypicker truck out there, and figure they're trimming.

    the Parliament of Trees is diminished badger 2002

  • He was painting a church from a cherrypicker crane when he brushed a high-tension power line, suffering deep and extensive burns.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • A heavy-duty cherrypicker brought in to carry out maintenance work proved too weighty for the entrance drawbridge.

    National Nine News 2010

  • The 38-year-old Perth man was then lowered to the ground by a cherrypicker and is now undergoing a mental health assessment in hospital, ABC said.

    London Free Press 2010

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