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[ScotO]

Nice load of wood, Joful. And that is DEFINATELY poison ivy.....I'm getting itchy just looking at it! You won't have to worry about it spreading, now if it was loaded up with little white berries, you'd have an issue there. But it's early, you'll be fine.....

I'd be taking that stuff off as whole as I could (with a pair of old, throw-away gloves and an old long sleeve shirt that you don't mind throwing out), take it off and pitch it into the woods (maybe back to the property it came from?), and you'll be good. As an extra precaution, maybe take a hatchet and remove the bark that has the 'hairs' on it and pitch that too......I've heard horror stories where some people have SEVERE reactions in their lungs to PI burning, and those hairs have Urushoil in them just like the rest of the vine....

 

[Ashful]

As an extra precaution, maybe take a hatchet and remove the bark that has the 'hairs' on it and pitch that too......I've heard horror stories where some people have SEVERE reactions in their lungs to PI burning, and those hairs have Urushoil in them just like the rest of the vine....

Another good reason to season 2+ years! I believe 2 years is the shelf life of urishoil in a dead vine.

 

[mustash29]

Hairy vines, the gift that keeps on giving.

My older bro bought a house west of DC summer of '11. Fall '11 we were helping clean up the nasty overgrown back yard. Dad, Mom, Bro, his wife & me all wound up with the "gift". Somehow my girl and the 2 kids managed to not get any.

Bro had it super bad, because he was loading it up on the trailer and unloading the trailer at the town dump / transfer station. Then they shredded it and blew it onto the pile of free "wood chips".

I used some burn cream gel from my work, 2% lidocane, that killed the pain while the calamine dried it up.

 

[Wingman]

You should build your stacks as a fence dividing the two properties. Then ask if he likes the trees better or the wood piles.

 

[Ashful]

Tempting. However, if I'm going to have this guy living in my back yard, and our kids are the same ages, it does me well to get along with him. I'll have to have a sit down with him some time soon, and just explain that I appreciate him wanting to see his house from the street, but that his only view of the street is thru my yard, and that I don't want to be looking at a house in my back yard. I have a feeling he won't be thrilled with me re-planting to block him out, but hoping he understands my point of view on it.