DCHP-3

cherry-picker

Lumbering, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

See quote.

Quotations

1942
Cherry-picker. A small donkey engine loaded on to a skeleton car or flat car and taken out along the track to pick up logs or loads dropped from cars on the way down to the Beach.
2n.

a large machine, mounted on a caterpillar tractor, for picking up long, heavy logs.

Quotations

1962
[Caption] This fabulous machine for loading the enormous logs from the British Columbia forests onto trailers is nicknamed the "cherry-picker."