produced by the partial squeezing of the trigger 40 by the user operator that is in use the user operator predominantly manipulates the litter stick 10 by a firm grip on the hand stock 14 however the user operator is afforded the option of extending one two or three fingers or so over the trigger 40 to alternately squeeze and relax the trigger 40 operating the trigger 40 operates the mechanical actions of the inventive litter stick 10 as more particularly described below to refer next to fig3 it is comparable to fig2 except it shows a continuation of the action sequence begun by fig2 that is the trigger 40 as depicted in fig3 in solid lines corresponds to the dashed line intermediate position of fig2 the corresponding depiction in solid lines in fig3 of the spike 20 and pick 30 show their relatively opposite travel to their own respective intermediate positions to which they go in reaction to the drive input from the trigger 40 that is squeezing the trigger 40 from its slack position solid lines in fig2 to an intermediate position eg solid lines in fig3 causes the following u2014 i upward rotation of the rocker 50 39 s inboard leg 52 to pull the spike 20 in a retraction stroke as well as ii downward rotation of the rocker 50 39 s outboard leg 56 to drive the pick 30 in extension fig3 shows that the spike point 20 is retracted to about even with if not slightly withdrawn in the outermost slide hole 22.