ugh...poison ivy!

[mga]

been a busy week dropping trees and then there's these guys..have to dress like a hazmat person to avoid being sprayed by the poison ivy vines.....



but, the piles are building up and this is only half of what's there, not to mention what we have in the staging area and what I have at home:

 

[capetrees]

Jobs like that, I go out and ring the bases of the trees and ivy which by now would have been dead, the ivy I mean. Makes it a bit nicer to work around. Takes a couple months to totally dry.

 

[mga]

Jobs like that, I go out and ring the bases of the trees and ivy which by now would have been dead, the ivy I mean. Makes it a bit nicer to work around. Takes a couple months to totally dry.

usually i'll chop them with an axe and let them die, but the trees have to come down now. fortunately, there's no climbing...these can all be dropped whole. trying to take advantage of the nice winter to get the golf course all prepped before next season.

I wear welding gloves doing these because they are long and a face mask. problem is just about every tree coming down has a vine growing up it.

 

[robson1015]

Poison Ivy sucks ! I can get it just by looking at it. I try to avoid it if possible.

 

[mga]

best part is I managed to get almost a cord of iron wood from all this. I have so much wood, I've been giving trailers fulls away to neighbors...all the ash only...lol

 

[olympyk_999]

I just call that stuff ivy...not poison to me

 

[unclemoustache]

I just call that stuff ivy...not poison to me

Consider yourself blessed! That's nasty to get for those of us allergic to it.

But also be aware that you may develop an allergy to it at any time. Allergies are funny things, and they can come and go. Very strange.

 

[olympyk_999]

That's nasty to get for those of us allergic to it.

perhaps you could ask the maker of the condoms you sell to look into a poison ivy proof body condom

 

[Oldman47]

I am with olympyk on this. I was using my weed whacker last summer and realized I had gotten onto some poison ivy when it was way too late. The darned moisture from the stuff was in my eyes and in my mouth. I decided not to tempt fate so drove home and rinsed off. Never saw any reaction from the exposure but when I changed clothes I did turn all exposed clothes inside out because I know my wife is allergic to it. I also warned her about the inside out clothes and what that meant to her.

 

[philoshop]

My cousin has an acre of trees he wants removed. It's black locust (thorny), covered with poison ivy, 25 miles from my house.
I told him to hire somebody with a dozer.

 

[mga]

Consider yourself blessed! That's nasty to get for those of us allergic to it.

But also be aware that you may develop an allergy to it at any time. Allergies are funny things, and they can come and go. Very strange.

ha...I was never allergic to it myself. I could grab it with bare hands and never get it...until one day about 5 years ago....bam...had the damn stuff all over me.

 

[lone wolf]

ha...I was never allergic to it myself. I could grab it with bare hands and never get it...until one day about 5 years ago....bam...had the damn stuff all over me.

Stay away from it ! It is not worth being itchy. We would just chip the whole damn tree in that case and use the winch to pull it in without touching it. I hate that junk!

 

[stihly dan]

Your a tougher man than me. No matter how much I needed wood, I would not touch that stuff.

 

[lone wolf]

Your a tougher man than me. No matter how much I needed wood, I would not touch that stuff.

 

[flashhole]

Do NOT burn it where you will be exposed to the smoke. It can be life threatening to those who inhale it.

I dang near died of it when I was a kid. It was growing in a blackberry bush and I was harvesting the berries. Got a lot of scratches from the thorns on the blackberry bush and the poison ivy got into my blood stream. I was a mess for about a month. Lots of steroids and monitored care. I still get it. Bad Ju-Ju for those with an allergic reaction.

 

[SteveSS]

I never used to react to it either, until two years ago. These days I try to steer clear of the stuff, but just in case, I carry these in with my kit now. Works really good.

 

[Donnarshmr]

Yeah, that looks like about 100% of the wooded portion of my property. We go through in waves hand sawing chunks out of the poison ivy vines and chainsawing chunks out of the grape vines. Then we wait and see what didn't die off the following spring. When it's all dead, we move in and start dropping the dead trees.

 

[laynes69]

I cut down an ash tree this fall that was dead, but looked live due to the poison ivy vines. Those vines probably came out 6 feet in diameter around the tree. Stupid me, I cut the tree with a short sleeved shirt on and I would rip off the vines as I cut. Some were 4 inches in diameter. I break out, but no blisters. Luckily I called the doctors office and they called in a script for prednisone and within a few days and a few dollars it was gone. Ended up getting quite a bit of wood from the tree, so it was worth it.

 

[mohick]

I am willing to be that most of the vines everyone sees isn't P I lots and lots of vines out there and it isn't P I It is just like everybody thinks a brown snake is a copperhead and every water snake is a cottonmouth. so lets panic and call everything with feathers a duck!!

 

[flashhole]

mohick makes a good point. I had to fell an ash tree this year that fell victim to the EAB. I was fretting the job because of the vines, turned out to be wild grapes. Quite robust vines too.