How to cut tree SWARMED with poisen ivy

[kensfarm]

Even if you spray it.. and later on.. chainsaw one of the big vines.. the juice will still get you. I'd use the FEL to clear the tree as best as possible.. and then pile it somewhere to compost.

 

[Dave___in___CT]

HI...


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Several type available...

I'm thinkin' about getting some... I have sumac (poison?) to deal with...

Can get a catalog from 'em too...


Dave...

 

[RobertN]

Get tough! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I found, that there are times when I am going to get poison oak, and that is all there is to it. So...

I wear a full coverall set. I wear gloves gauntlet type. I wear a longsleeve shirt, buttoned up good. Avon and Technu both make good pre-exposure ointments. Both make good cleanup "soap".

The Army surplus store has cheap coveralls; throw them away at the end of the day.

I wear a full helmet with neck cover and face screen(chain saw helmet.

I also take a leak and use the potty real good before I suit up. Once suited, I stay at it...

And, I still get it, but not too bad. Then, I tough it out for a week or so(wife says I whine, but I don't think so /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[slowrev]

Poison Ivy does not bother me. I can cut it up with a weed eater and no problems, and you know how many weed bits you have on you after an evening of weed whacking. I do have to fight it though since my wife is very allergic to it. I use double strength roundup on it and any large vines, I cut off and pour a bit of undiluted roundup on the end of the vine, works great. You might need 2 or 3 applications of roundup over a year or so period to totally wipe it out. I think some of the berries still keep sprouting.

 

[1bush2hog]

Forget Roundup! You will never kill this kind of severe poison ivy by spraying the live growth on the tree. You will first have to cut the vines at the base of the tree. If you cut at the base the vines will eventually rot and fall out of the tree.

If you are allergic - do not even think about it! I have had to chainsaw vines that are 8-10 in diameter off of trees on my property and the dust from sawing is brutal.

If you have a toothbar on your FEL, try to snag the larger vines and slowly move away from tree. This will rip the vine off the tree and put it on the ground where you can then manage it alot better by using rotary cutter or FEL to serate vines at ground level. Get the larger vines off first and then you have access to cutting the smaller ones.

Sounds like alot of work and risk for some firewood.

My advice, buy the firewood this tree would generate and leave (no pun intended) this tree be.

 

[Varmintmist]

Go to the pharmacy and buy 2 bottles of IVY-DRY, then get cutting /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I dont get PI unless I have some kind of small scratch, then it climbs in there and hangs on for weeks.

Brush it off with the fel, pile everything you can, drive away and let the whole mess sit till winter. Treat the stumps with round up or somthing at least as nasty. If you get the tree pretty clean, most of the crap will have washed off by the time you get to it so sawing the tree wont be that much of a problem. Once you are done, pile the brush on the PI and burn it.

The only problem with leaving that mess of PI is that it will spread. If that isnt going to be a problem, than that tree is more effort than it is worth.

 

[DiskDoctr]

Hire slowrev... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Or someone else who doesn't get PI.

Option#2: Cold day, gloves and long sleeves/long pants. Pruning shears or tree trimming shears at the base of the plants, pull from base and lay in trailer for dumping.

-JC

 

[Richard]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Brush it off with the fel, pile everything you can, drive away and let the whole mess sit till winter. Treat the stumps with round up or somthing at least as nasty. If you get the tree pretty clean, most of the crap will have washed off by the time you get to it so sawing the tree wont be that much of a problem. Once you are done, pile the brush on the PI and burn it. )</font>

Although I'd never burn it, this was kinda my thinking. Specifically, cut it/kill it now, leave tree standing while mother nature and time help rot away the dead PI. Then when most has wilted down, I can get in there better with backhoe and use teeth to rake most of the vines off AND be able to reach up high to rake there too.

Once that's all off, can still use backhoe to rake pile up and push elsewhere and leave it!

Go back closer to winter or heck... next spring (we have well enough for a year already cut) and then section the tree up and put it on my log pile.

I was just wondering if it made more sense to specifically try to kill the stuff now, or just wait until it's dormant. Kinda seems to me that if I rake it off, it doesn't really matter if it's dead or alive, other than the joy I might get helping it make its transition from alive TO dead /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SPIKER]

I would try and SPRAY it now , several time all around the tree adn the base 20~30 feet out... then after it is dead clear ground go in FEL/HOE and pull it down come winter or early next spring prior to any more NEW or ROOT regrowing.

once it is off leave tree stand as long as you can, while keeping the area under it sprayed...

burnind the wood will possably get you into PI smoke, same for the OLD MAN who will be using the wood... If it were up to me, I would maybe just call it a wash and find better NON-INFESTED wood to burn... If not then after it has set DEAD a while set it ablase with a bit of gas/oil/fuel mix while it is still attached to tree to burn it away while standing. make sure no-wind is blowing twards anyones homes!!! blowing out into 10000 acres of no-where would be good. ) it will burn like crazy! for a few min, once it is all burnt off the tree, (still flaming pull it away maybe needed or extinguish it so the tree does not burn.)

only ideas I can come up with.

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[sendero]

Vexing problem /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I have some experience with PI. First, Roundup, mixed pretty strong, will kill PI. And I'd do that rather than just cut it at the root because if you really douse the foliage well, you will kill the entire plant, root and all. If you cut it at the root it will probably leaf out again, and fast. It takes a lot of root system to support that much foliage.

Of course, everyone is right, even after long dead you will have to be careful with it, but it has been MY experience that green PI is many, many, many more times as potent an irritant as dead PI.

I am highly allergic to the stuff and still have some on my 40 acres. I'm killing clumps of it every season. The reason I'm highly allergic is simple. 20 years ago I mowed (with a push mower) a 20'x20' patch of the stuff, in short pants. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Needless to say, I had no idea what it was. Needless to say, I can spot 1 leaf of PI in a thicket from 20 feet now. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif