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.
Maybe a little bit of overkill!!?? Multiple plastic bags, plastic gloves, my gosh the stuff won't kill you.
I guess you have never had it bad enough to have to go get shots to help clear it up. I would dispose of it EXACTLY like outlined. You only have to get it once! After that, you will get it every time you walk by it. I hit some with my mower and the dust from the dry ground got on my face. I was a hurting unit in about 2 days. It hung around on various parts of my body for a month! Not pleasant!
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Poison Ivy is a sensitizer and can make you very susceptible to it later. If you have never been burnt bad by it you do not realize the damage it can do.
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Go find some other tree to burn.
Dispose of it like others said - or let it rot in a far corner of the property.
You'll have the dreaded ivy growing again soon enough (if not already) if you had it before.
Burning lets it loose for a wide area - you have no control of who it contacts.
Why chance it?
We have Poison Oak in our area. Supposable couple years ago 4 Marines from other state went camping in the Chico, CA area. They made sausage sticks from Poison Oak. All ended up dead.
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floridacamper wrote: 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.
But remember, even though it doesn't affect YOU, you can still spread the sap around anything and everything you touch after strolling "or rolling" through it. You will infect family and freinds and they will keep being reinfected due to the sap on everything around.
You become the "Typhoid Mary" of poison ivy.
I had to explain this to my camping freind. She is immune to poison ivy. One day when we were hiking I told her to watch out for the poison ivy along the side of the trail. She said that's okay, I'm immune to it. I then explained to her that I was NOT immune to it and once she spread the sap all over the camper, that my vacation would be ruined. That thought had never even occured to her. Now she is more careful to avoid it, even though it won't affect HER.
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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.
Maybe a little bit of overkill!!?? Multiple plastic bags, plastic gloves, my gosh the stuff won't kill you.
But if you get a bad enough case, it makes you wish it WOULD kill you!
Been there, done that, wished I was dead! No such think as overkill with that stuph!
we have a HUGE brush pile in the neighbors yard that we plan on burning(and he wants us to). I know it has dead PI vines in it cause we put them there when we cleaned his yard(and I got PI x2). My plan was to wait for a calm day and burn it. Sounds like the oils are located in the smoke? so I need to stay clear?
Waiting for it to decay isn't an option and I DON'T want to handle that stuff again to bag it.
I am interested in your thoughts and tips. I have done brush clearing several times in his yard while covered from head to toe and didn't get any poison ivy. what about one of those disposable masks?
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