Wtf is this stuff!?

[93redzj]

So I’m trying to clear off a spot on the side of the house to do that I can put a shop there…..PO had some sort of fenced in garden thing that had been unattended for years it seems so everything has grown up and over….but for the life of me I don’t understand what sort of tree/bush/vine I’m pulling up here. There were 3 posts and it had intertwined itself around it all AND it roots into the ground and goes in like 6 different directions and as soon as you think you’ve got it all, nope more roots and they ain’t easy to up-root

 

[grapehead]

Burn it. Burn it all.

 

[awheelterd]

Grape vine

 

[RatLabGuy]

I was expecting something a lot more goopy and/or squishy.

 

[93redzj]

Burn it. Burn it all.

This is what I want to do. I have thought about enlisting @jeepinmatt with his heavy artillery and ability to burn stuff.

@awheelterd is it grape vine?? I just know the shit is everywhere, there is no end once you starting pulling a limb/vine/root whatever you wanna call it

 

[RatLabGuy]

This is what I want to do. I have thought about enlisting @jeepinmatt with his heavy artillery and ability to burn stuff.

@awheelterd is it grape vine?? I just know the shit is everywhere, there is no end once you starting pulling a limb/vine/root whatever you wanna call it

that sounds like poison oak / ivy vines to me If so you'll know by tomorrow

 

[XJsavage]

Looks like muscadine vine to me.

 

[XJsavage]

Grape vine

that sounds like poison oak / ivy vines to me If so you'll know by tomorrow

Riddle me this: Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, none of which I have an allergic reaction to. I get my kicks out of pulling whole leaves and rubbing it all over my d*** and b***s right in front of people. Nothing. Not even a fester. What bloodline does that? Besides Savagearyan?
^^^ I just invented that one.

 

[93redzj]

that sounds like poison oak / ivy vines to me If so you'll know by tomorrow

I have had some itchiness after working in all this although no other indication that I’ve gotten into something, but I’ve also been doing it when colder out so I’ve had boots, pants, long sleeves and gloves.

 

[strange1]

That looks like either grape or bittersweet vine.

 

[No fries]

Riddle me this: Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, none of which I have an allergic reaction to. I get my kicks out of pulling whole leaves and rubbing it all over my d*** and b***s right in front of people. Nothing. Not even a fester. What bloodline does that? Besides Savagearyan?
^^^ I just invented that one.

Oh shit I might be related, been all in and never had a reaction, but never rubbed it on my D**k or B**lls!!
I don't push it cause I've heard of people getting it when they get older. Seen people that got in their lungs from burning it. Sent em to the hospital, that ain't no joke.

 

[XJsavage]

Oh shit I might be related, been all in and never had a reaction, but never rubbed it on my D**k or B**lls!!
I don't push it cause I've heard of people getting it when they get older. Seen people that got in their lungs from burning it. Sent em to the hospital, that ain't no joke.

Worst case, everything swells up larger than normal?

I wouldn't be against it. Sounds like an entertaining conversation with the hospital nurses to me.

 

[CasterTroy]

Oh shit I might be related, been all in and never had a reaction

Same

I'm allergic to damn near everything else (cept any food allergies...you'd never guess looking at me) except poison oak/ivy etc.

 

[Southern_Transplant]

Worst case, everything swells up larger than normal?

I wouldn't be against it. Sounds like an entertaining conversation with the hospital nurses to me.

Until the uncontrollably itching kicks in..

I was lucky growing up. I'm immune to poison oak which grows all over the Northwest. My sisters were hypersensitive to it. I saw the rashes and what they went through.

Then I decided to join the Army and went to Fort Knox. I discovered during night patrols that my immunity did not extend to poison ivy.

 

[XJsavage]

Until the uncontrollably itching kicks in..

I was lucky growing up. I'm immune to poison oak which grows all over the Northwest. My sisters were hypersensitive to it. I saw the rashes and what they went through.

Then I decided to join the Army and went to Fort Knox. I discovered during night patrols that my immunity did not extend to poison ivy.

So far, so good here.
My only known kryptonite is flying insects. Red wasps and hornets particularly.
Not once have I had a reaction to a plant. Yet?

 

[awheelterd]

Poison Ivey on the junk is absolutely aweful. I played it in the woods all the time as a kid and got it literally everywhere a few times. All it takes is unknowingly touching a leaf with your hands and then taking a leak prior to a good hand washing. I learned how to spot it pretty quick after a time or two of that misery! Having it between your fingers or on your eyelids are almost as miserable as on the dangly bits.

 

[jeepinmatt]

@93redzj looking at the pictures, it looks like grape vines or muscadine vines (as others have already said). Goes bare in the winter, but rabbits love that stuff in the summer. We used to have muscadine vines behind our old house. A little sour and tart, but edible.

 

[RatLabGuy]

I don't push it cause I've heard of people getting it when they get older. Seen people that got in their lungs from burning it. Sent em to the hospital, that ain't no joke.

Thats me. After a childhood of playing everywhere outdoors and spending a lot of years hiking, bushwhacking etc I got my first case at the age of 27. Initially I was like, WTF is this, it can't be the poison ivy out back bc I've never reacted to it before. Lo and behold, yup. Now I'm sensitive to it. No idea wtf happened.

 

[DSM Turbos]

Thats me. After a childhood of playing everywhere outdoors and spending a lot of years hiking, bushwhacking etc I got my first case at the age of 27. Initially I was like, WTF is this, it can't be the poison ivy out back bc I've never reacted to it before. Lo and behold, yup. Now I'm sensitive to it. No idea wtf happened.

same here as well, happened to me a little earlier in my 20s. As a kid we played in it all the time as we had plenty around our house

 

[Croatan_Kid]

Riddle me this: Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, none of which I have an allergic reaction to. I get my kicks out of pulling whole leaves and rubbing it all over my d*** and b***s right in front of people. Nothing. Not even a fester. What bloodline does that? Besides Savagearyan?
^^^ I just invented that one.

I'm not bothered by any of it either, but I also don't push my luck with it. Sorta like flying insects or snake, or spiders. I have also heard that your resistance to it can disappear later in life for no rhyme or reason. People is weird creatures!

So far, so good here.
My only known kryptonite is flying insects. Red wasps and hornets particularly.
Not once have I had a reaction to a plant. Yet?

I feel like there may be "some" plants you have a reaction to

 

[Futbalfantic]

Riddle me this: Poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, none of which I have an allergic reaction to. I get my kicks out of pulling whole leaves and rubbing it all over my d*** and b***s right in front of people. Nothing. Not even a fester. What bloodline does that? Besides Savagearyan?
^^^ I just invented that one.

Another “no longer immune” person here. I may still be less sensitive but had very prolonged contact to it and developed a rash.

 

[93redzj]

@93redzj looking at the pictures, it looks like grape vines or muscadine vines (as others have already said). Goes bare in the winter, but rabbits love that stuff in the summer. We used to have muscadine vines behind our old house. A little sour and tart, but edible.

Unfortunately these won’t be anything more than broken, mangled vines as they need to go to make room for the shop

 

[Lizooki]

Keep rubbing it around.
I didn't have trouble with it either ...... until I did.

 

[LT1JEEP]

The easiest way to get rid of poison ivy as soon you know you have it is to scratch it to open it up and rub lacquer thinner on it and it will dry it up overnight. It can be fun to watch the reaction of the person when they put thinner on. After you get done weed eating and you think you might have got in some posion ivy you can wipe your arms down with laquer thinner and it will keep you from breaking out. Been doing this for years and it works.

 

[Croatan_Kid]

Washing with Dawn dish soap helps too. They're both just breaking down and drying out the oils, which are what we react to.

I read a story one time about archeologists going in an Egyptian tomb and there happened to be some version of a poisin vine in there, dead, and presumably as old at the mummy they found. They all caught a good case of it according to the article. That crap lasts forever!