How many of you have this delightful stuff growing pic

Britcheflee · May 7, 2013

Know what it is?

JMOR · May 7, 2013

Looks like maybe a little vetch, crabgrass, etc. among your poison oak. :lol:

Jim in Western MI · May 7, 2013

Looks like you also have some red cedar shading that poison oak; it'll grow better with more sun. We mostly have the ivy version around hereabouts. Prolific and hardy, but doesn't like glyphosphate or 2, 4-D.

it me again · May 7, 2013

you bet your life on that hospital time for a lot for people..
i used cheap round up, about 200 gallon of spray for blackberry and poison oak grassy fence line.. i don't like stuff but love me..
reg orange hand cleaner work great right after you been into the itches stuff.. if itch take quart bottle of alcohol in spray bottle spray yourself if need more stuff take a ice water and put in spray bottle and used too.
if your dog get into and take the spray bottle and spray them wet them down help stop spread from dog or cat to you and good for flea too.

souNdguy · May 7, 2013

knock on wood here. but i'm so far lucky that if i contant oak/ivy and then was my hands within.. oh.. saw.. an hour.. i get -0- reaction.

I know I have come across it cutting vegitation and know i have full on handled it. cut leaves and stems and all.

while i'm typing this i'm knocking on wood so i don't jinx myself..

Anonymous-0 · May 7, 2013

Sorta like having chicken pox or other POXES!

History: When I was just a lad, I cleaned out fence rows. Later I had a coating of various skin poisings all over my body. Sumack, oak, ivy, and other stuff that just about killed me, so I thought.

Best thing I could find to help? WHITE SHOE POLISH. I would get up at night and sit in the bath tub in the hottest water I could run, after I SAT DOWN. Instand itch relief. Then dry off and spread WHITE SHOE POLISH all over my body. Would always dry-up the poision in about 2 days!

However, since I am oldr, I am no longer effected with the POISION oil.

Old medicine chief said I would outgrow the POXES!

Now there is a nnalert available for road crews.
The STATE road guys are lineing up right now, here, for their shots. Sorta like chickenpos shots to prevent SHINGLES.

WHITE SHOE POLISH, good stuff.

John,PA

R Geiger · May 7, 2013

Crossbow works well on poison oak. Is that pencil cedar?

Britcheflee · May 7, 2013

I think so, we have a lot of cedar on the property - I was clearing all this area earlier in the year when it was dry - picking up armfuls of wood and sticks...I THINK I have a little resistance to it but never want to put that to the test.
I was at work many years ago the dishwasher came in - I actually thought he had been in a car fire or something - his arms had horrible huge blisters all over them - poor guy was from a state where they don't have poison oak and had been weedeating and cutting it down from the end of some property - ended up going to the hospital where they gave him some shots - I have never seen anything like it - shocking.
This year the stuff is coming up everywhere - I think the mild weather has encouraged it - I was also told that crossbow works well but for the moment hitting it hard with round up.

R Geiger · May 7, 2013

I never got it for years, could handle it and not catch it, now i have to be careful. I do use a combination of roundup and cross bow on it. Don't know if it works any better or not that way, but was just told that by a farmer uncle years ago. Wife is from Greenville north of you and all they have there is the pencil cedar. We have western red cedar here in nw Oregon.

Cliff(VA) · May 8, 2013

There is new stuff to help with poison ivy. It is called Technu. If you wash within a few hours of exposure this will remove all the urushiol and keep you from developing symptoms.

Oddly enough Techu was originally developed to cleanse nuclear contamination. But boy does it work great on poison ivy. If I wash after weed eating, I may get one or two small bumps versus all up and down my arms if I do not wash.

Their Technu Extreme product is designed for when you are already displaying symptoms.

There are other products on the market based on the same technology, but I still prefer Technu.

Cliff(VA)
Technu

BillM (OH) · May 9, 2013

SouNder: Don't brag - I used to be impervious to that stuff until one February when I went down to the dock to shove to stuff off the upstream end and just walked through it - no leaves - just canes - and boy did I get a dose, and have been reacting to it ever since!

souNdguy · May 10, 2013

i hear ya.

alergies are funny.

i used to be highly alergic to ant and wasp stings.

ant stings would literally cause paralysis in my legs!! and wasp stings make painfull red whelps and swelling.

fast forward years later. mino ant bits don't even make marks. bad ones make a lil pimple in a day. wasp stings hurt right when hit.. 5m later.. nada.

i had to clear some brush last week, thought of this thread... i moved quite a few vines of p-ivy. wondered how my luck would hold.

knock on wood.. still holding so far.. though I DO try to NOT get exposed. no need to tempt fate..e tc...

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