Joe Camper
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Is it ever safe to burn wood that had poison ivy growing on it?
I had a tree with a 1" diameter poison ivy vine growing on it. i cut the vine and applied PI killer 4 years ago. It was dead within a matter of weeks but remnants of it are still stuck to the tree trunk. Part of the tree fell in a storm yesterday and i cut the other half down today. Is it safe to cut the logs for firewood?
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ngreen
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No - do an internet search for specifics
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No. Firefighters go to hospitals all the time with inhalation of PI/PO smoke....
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Never Burn Poison Ivy. The smoke can be as bad as touching it to someone that is affected by it.
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And I can guarantee that if the tree had poison ivy on it the sap is on the wood. Sap + fire is a NASTY combination. Imagine those blisters inside your mouth, and in your lungs.
We have an area north of here that's infested with poison ivy and the fire fighters have to wear breathing apparatus for field fires, just in case there is some present in the fire area. Because there were several cases years ago where fire fighters and neighbors to a fire ended up hospitalized due to fires in poison ivy areas.
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Joe Camper
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Great.... i cut through it with the chain saw when i was cutting the tree down 
so what is the recommended method of disposal?
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Nope. That happened at a campfire when I was a kid and several folks caught it from the oils caught up in the smoke.
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Yes, if you are upwind and don't like the folks down wind.
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so what is the recommended method of disposal?
from: http://www.organicgardening.com/featureprint/1,7759,s-2-11-1194,00.html
Do plasticize it. Dispose of poison ivy and poison oak in plastic bags and put them out with the trash. The easiest way to do this is to put the plastic bags over your gloved hands, pull the plants into the bags, and then pull the bags inside out off your gloved hands, encasing the poison ivy inside the bag. Be nice to your garbage man and put the poison-ivy-filled bags into a larger, uncontaminated bag.
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Poison ivy and poison oak doesn't bother me. I can lie down in it and it doesn’t affect me. The only thing that affects me is those wild elephant ears that grows down in these parts. Mostly where it stays wet. I once took a weedeater after them and the juice got onto my legs and I made a bee line to the shower.
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