Question about digging a trench to bury brush and poison oak.

[SnowRidge]

You can catch it from a toilet seat, too!

If the toilet seat was made in Japan, and if it has a traditional Japanese lacquer finish. The lacquer, urishi, is made from a tree that is a relative of poison oak, poison ivy, etc. North Americans tend to be far more sensitized to the stuff than Asians, because our urishiol bearing plants contain a stronger variety.

The symptom is butt ring rash.

All of the above is true, just in case you think I am making this up.

 

[cowboy357]

Like said Burning it in anyway is dangerous , Dont ask Me how I know. But the type that Climbs up the trees is easy to forget once in the brush burn pile . Only takes a small part that Might still contain the leaves or oil .

Also I,ve used Roundup & such & It doesn,t have much effect on Actually killing the vine Or Roots. I was told You have to use a Bush or Trunk killer for it to Really kill it Where it wont regrow. & so far that has worked for Me.

My Only concerns if You are Burying a lot of it, Would be possible contamination to the Drinking water if to close to a well. But I have No clue. Just Curious as to others opinions. As I Only Know You Dont Burn it. Great topic though.

Bob

 

[Skyco]

Eddie- yeah I know about the oil, I've studied it to death since I am one of the people very sensitive to it What I was wondering though is, if the plant is eaten by an immune animal can it be excreted in their sweat. If urushiol is in the sweat then, yeah touching a sweaty horse thats eaten it could be a problem. Don't know.

SnowRidge- I read somewhere that a researcher handled some ancient lacquered items hundreds of years old and he broke out from it

BTW one other tip- after hurricane Hugo hit SC many years ago I was helping my dad clean up some damage and inadvertantly ran a chain saw through a downed tree truck that apparently had poison ivy vines on it. Two days later I was at the Drs. with a severe case all over my face and a perfect v on my neck where my collar had skin exposed. A very big Thank You to whoever invented prednisone!

 

[ultrarunner]

This can't be the 'Olympia WA' area.

No... my Poison Oak Plantation is if the SF Bay Area.

Lack of Poison Oak is at the top of my list of things I love about Olympia WA!!! Just being able to let the kids wander the property and let the dogs run without fear of Poison Oak is paradise... not to mention abundant water vs. draught conditions plaguing CA.

 

[ultrarunner]

The best thing to do after coming into contact with it is to wash with soap and water. Get the oil off of your skin. It's not an instant reaction, so you do have some time to remove it before you have a reaction. Then wash your clothing. As for animals, giving them a bath with lots of soap will get rid of it, but of course, you have to keep them away from the poison oak and/or ivy.

It is not true that touching a person with poison oak will give you poison oak. The rash is the reaction to the oil, it is not contagious, or transferable. Only the oil can do this.

Everyone is susceptible to having the reaction to it. If you don't have any reaction to it today, does not mean that it won't happen tomorrow. I was immune until I was 18. I would play with it, chase people with it and totally ignore it. Of course, that's what led to my first outbreak.

Eddie

For me... washing with Tecnu as little as 15 minutes after exposure is too late.

The city has a 10" sewer line running down a ravine and crosses a seasonal creek near my home... the line serves over 100 homes and is continually spilling into the creek.

The poison oak is so thick that the city crews would no longer venture in to fix it. I was able to beat the oak back quite a bit so the spills are now more apparent.

I was directing the city crew to the latest spill 3 weeks ago and a poison oak twig grazed my face and that was all it took for a full blown case even though I did a thorough decontamination 15 minutes after exposure...

 

[CurlyDave]

I have found that GoJo (the kind with pumice powder in it, not the slimey goo kind) works as well, if not better than, Technu. It is also a lot easier on the wallet.

Sort of stands to reason since it is meant to remove engine oil & grease. I have a big, pump bottle in my shower. Never an outbreak since I started using it two years ago.

My wife makes me keep it on my side of the shower, she fears for her complexion if she even looks at the container while she is in there.

 

[Allan_Cen_Ont]

Like said Burning it in anyway is dangerous , Dont ask Me how I know. But the type that Climbs up the trees is easy to forget once in the brush burn pile . Only takes a small part that Might still contain the leaves or oil .

Also I,ve used Roundup & such & It doesn,t have much effect on Actually killing the vine Or Roots. I was told You have to use a Bush or Trunk killer for it to Really kill it Where it wont regrow. & so far that has worked for Me.

My Only concerns if You are Burying a lot of it, Would be possible contamination to the Drinking water if to close to a well. But I have No clue. Just Curious as to others opinions. As I Only Know You Dont Burn it. Great topic though.

Bob

The best spray to use to kill poison Ivy or poison oak is 24d also the best time to do it is just after the leaves come out in the spring or early summer and it will take a couple of applications to kill it good so it won't come back again

 

[alternety]

A story or two on poison ivy. When I was in school a friend of mine and his wife were from England (somewhere in the vicinity of Europe; it has been a very long time). The school is in central PA. They decided to take a drive and look at fall colors. They came back with some really colorful bunches of - you guessed it; poison ivy. When I saw it I explained what it was and told them to get out of their clothes and wash themselves completely. It took a certain amount of persuasion for them to believe in poison ivy. The husband was immune. The wife was seriously not. They also wanted to smell a skunk (how bad can it be?).

The stuff is dangerous. As a kid I was hospitalized once and bed ridden for a week or so. They had to cut my pajamas off when I was admitted. It was in my eyes, nose, mouth, all my exposed skin I was wearing shorts and a short sleve shirt. Someone in the neighborhood had burned the stuff. I could only eat liquids through a straw for most of the week.

 

[trailmaker]

I bought a takeuchi tb138fr mini ex with a flail mower specifically for brush removal on my property in the bay area. It has worked out very well for me so far.
YouTube - mini excavator time lapse mowing 1
This method keeps the ground relatively undisturbed compared to dozing although a dozer or especially a track loader with a flail mower will be much faster in the flats.

 

[ultrarunner]

Wow... the terrain looks like my place.

Was the cab enough protection from the Poison Oak chips flying through the air?

How did you learn something like this was available?

Did you buy it work ready?