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Fruit gardening humour. Using a cherry picker to pick pears

May 3, 2012 by chrismadden

cartoon - picking pears with a cherry picker

Fruit gardening cartoon

Picking pears with a cherry picker

A man using a cherry picker or aerial work platform to reach the fruit at the top of a pear tree.
A humorous comment on some people’s tendency to use technology or equipment that has a higher spec than is necessary for the task in hand.
Similar to the concept of using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

Drawn: Oct 2011

Cartoon reference number: a180

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Filed Under: GARDENING, Vegetable and fruit gardening

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