Cherry Picker Hire Birkenhead

We are a fully IPAF licensed Birkenhead based company, specialising in providing an efficient and highly cost-effective access platform service.

What Is A Cherry Picker?

Cherry pickers are machines that can help you reach heights safely and efficiently. They are mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) that are used in a variety of industries. They feature a hydraulic lifting system with an adjustable telescopic arm and a surface or bucket on the end that allows you to sit or stand in it and place your tools and equipment.

You can control how high a cherry picker goes (within certain limits), and adjust the position so you can reach where you need to with complete accuracy. The cherry picker gets its name from its history of picking cherries. They were first made to help people pick fruits from the top branches in orchards.

Historically, people would use ladders and pulling mechanisms to get the best fruit from the treetops – until the cherry picker was invented and revolutionized the fruit picking process.

The cherry picker is a much safer and time-effective solution to picking fruit from trees – and they are still used to pick fruit today despite having countless other uses.

Main Uses Of A Cherry Picker

A cherry picker wouldn’t be a cherry picker if it didn’t pick cherries. However, cherries aren’t the only fruit that can be picked using a cherry picker. In fact, cherry pickers can be used to pick any fruit from high branches in orchards, alleviating the dangers of falling from a height or losing fruit.

Our cherry picker services involve an operator and driver, meaning that the hard work is taken out of picking fruit. Health and safety is always at the forefront of your mind, and rest assured our experienced team will complete the task with utmost care.

You can also use a cherry picker to conduct building maintenance – whether you need to clean the exterior of a building, remove graffiti, or paint walls, a cherry picker may just be the perfect solution.

It’s the perfect way to reach heights and awkward angles – a ladder may be useful, but how are you supposed to carry buckets of paint while climbing a ladder? A cherry picker is a much safer solution, and you can easily bring your equipment in the cherry picker with you – offering mobility, security, and of course, safety.

Our quality cherry pickers also require much less effort than using scaffolding or ladders – you don’t have to reach or stretch at all as you can simply adjust the height or position to access where you need to. Cherry pickers are also frequently used for accessing telephone and electricity poles – there are thousands and thousands of these around Birkenhead alone.

If you’re employed in this field, chances are, you’ll use a cherry picker on a daily basis to ensure you can reach the height you need to service the pole. Ladders were used in the past – but this was generally unsafe, especially as workers needed to carry the equipment up the ladders with them.

You may not realise that cherry pickers can also be used in filming. They offer a stable way for cameras to film from higher angles, for events, films, and sporting competitions.

When you watch a marathon on television, you’ll see the event from a variety of angles, usually including a high angle that offers a wide range of vision or birds-eye view. Chances are, this is done by mounting a camera to the cherry picker and remotely operating the cherry picker to achieve the best camera angles.

Fire and rescue services also use cherry pickers frequently to access heights and to save lives. Cherry pickers are brilliant ways to rescue multiple people at once – something they wouldn’t be able to do in a timely fashion with a ladder.