Stupid or what?

In came the chap today that does all our sign writing. One of my fellow co. workers "idiot?" who is making heavy weather of fitting a flue on his house for a log burner saw an opportunity to perhaps borrow a piece of equipment that could make this job a little easier. "Hey" he asked "is your cherry picker manual?" at this I burst out laughing and said "surely a manual cherry picker is a ladder?" Of course the cherry picker is fully automated as you would expect. But I have decided the best solution to my fellow co. workers problem is to use a manual cherry picker i.e a ladder and I have volunteered to help him out by holding the bottom.