dknarnd
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Tom_H has just given you a good warning. You may not be alergic to poison but if there is really as much as you lead on to have burning it can be very dangerous for both you and anyone near-by.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Tom_H has just given you a good warning. You may not be alergic to poison but if there is really as much as you lead on to have burning it can be very dangerous for both you and anyone near-by. )</font>
Yes, others have warned me as well about burning the poison ivy. I am allergic to it, but not as bad as some people. I think what I'll do is wade in there and spray the poison ivy with weed killer a couple weeks before I start clearing. If I find really heavy stuff I guess I'll pull it out separately and bury it instead of burning it. Is there a better way to do it?
Yes, others have warned me as well about burning the poison ivy. I am allergic to it, but not as bad as some people. I think what I'll do is wade in there and spray the poison ivy with weed killer a couple weeks before I start clearing. If I find really heavy stuff I guess I'll pull it out separately and bury it instead of burning it. Is there a better way to do it?
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If you are asking about getting rid of thorns, etc., that would eat you alive if you tried to stay on your tractor, I purchased a grappling hook, actually an anchor, from a boat supply place, tie it to a cable, tied to the tractor. Throw it over the brush and pull with the tractor. Usually pulls the brush out, or lowers it enough that I can drive into/over it.
Tom_H
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You could go ahead and bulldoze everything into a pile that's out of the way of the line where you want to put the fence, then just bury it. Even if you let it dry for a couple of years, the toxins are still in the dried Poison Ivy and could be dangerous if burned even after it dries out.
The places from where the Poison Ivy was scraped will still have roots which will re-sprout; the same is true if you rip it out with a grapple. They will, however, be initially short and more easily handled. Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac are all members of the genus Toxicodendron, though all three are separate species. Click here to see a very good article in a university database about Poison Oak and how to control it. Though the article is about Poison Oak rather than Poison Ivy, there would be little difference between handling the two.
The places from where the Poison Ivy was scraped will still have roots which will re-sprout; the same is true if you rip it out with a grapple. They will, however, be initially short and more easily handled. Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, and Poison Sumac are all members of the genus Toxicodendron, though all three are separate species. Click here to see a very good article in a university database about Poison Oak and how to control it. Though the article is about Poison Oak rather than Poison Ivy, there would be little difference between handling the two.
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