Poison Ivy!!!

[Swimmer]

Had five cords log length delivered a week ago. I saw poison oak on one of the elm trees, so I pulled that off, great. But tree guy never told me that what he delivered was growing in the middle of a bunch of poison ivy. His crew tore it off of the trees then cut the trees down. The oil was still all over the oak, maple, and some of the elm bark, and now my forearms. I knew I should have had a long sleeve sweatshirt on.

[Raven]

now ....we all might be good at not scratching poison IVY
in our waking ours....but when alseep you will scratch it anywhere its exposed...and then ,again unconsiousley ...while asleep ...rub your eyes or other vitally important areas and spread it to there as well.

so i reccommend that you wrap yourself with gauze or wear a long sleave shirt to bed or your gonna spread it ......->everywhere.
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luckilly its not as itchy as a fire ant sting.....i woke up one morning and i had scratched my arm til it was a bloody mess in my sleep and never remembered even doing it...

[sok]

I'm digging out all the long sleeve shirts I can find.
1.) It's friggin cold again.
2.) NOT in the pile from this past Sat.(what does get it off clothes? I'm hesitant to touch the laundry.)
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luckilly its not as itchy as a fire ant sting.....i woke up one morning and i had scratched my arm til it was a bloody mess in my sleep and never remembered even doing it...

Worst I had was a spider bite.
Never saw it. Tiny web on the mirror mount of my truck one morning. The first day it itched. I thought it was a mosquito bite.
The day after that I woke up with one forearm 4 times the size of the other. Numb for two weeks.
I still have mystery lumps and scars seven years later.
Still don't know what it was.

[Raven]

of poison ivy oil removal was using a really strong "oil breaking down laundry soap"....the bar was tan...(stil available) smelly like pine sol is... and its good for washing your hands....the oil can stay in dugarees for years if not washed ...especially if you were weed wacking and getting poison ivy sap/oil on your pant legs... you then have to soak them outdoors and use a scrub brush to really penetrate the fibers. then wash with real strong laundry soap. even washing your hands doesnt clean them of bacteria unless you use a brush to clean out all the nooks and crannies of your skin.same with clothes.
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the thing with poison ivy oil ...is that it penetrates your epidermial layer like nothin... and gets done to the subcutaneously layer that's bright red "seen only when you cut yourself bad". then the oil generates a response there and it creates a sore to expell the oil back up and out....of you... so thats why...it can get re-deposited back onto your skin, and transfered to other undesirable areas.

[sok]

Thanks.
So you're saying with my mini-grinder I have to get down to the "really cut bad" layer?

Lye soap. Right?

Seeing as there are so many bad plants (1) out in the yard trying to do me harm I think I have skip yard work and go fishing this weekend.

[Raven]

to smother it out than cut it out unless its on trees then cut the main roots with loppers...which you clean with precious gasoline later.
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to smother it: use an old section of carpet ....grass clippings and or black plastic with sand or soil or rocks to anchor it down. you can also spray it with 4 times the concentration of round up when your about to have four consecutive sunny days....although the new stuff (round up)claims to have water proof capability in 20 minutes....and thats a good thing!

[Raven]

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Lye soap. Right? heres the picture
I think I have skip yard work ...good idea ...smother it instead

[sok]

Thanks for the advice.
I appreciate all the info.
Went back out in the yard a few hours ago.
The sprout is now a small shrub. Easy to kill.

Then I looked up.......................
(My yard is a hill. 75-85 feet to the house above. I cleared 6 feet up and back and I'm paying for it.)

What's the biggest piece of plastic or carpet I can buy?
20x20?
30x30?

[Saltheart]

Yhere is a good Canal spot that I had to stop fishing cause I got poison ivy or Oak or Sumac (whatever it is over there) every time I went there. I'd even be extra c areful not to touch anything but I think it was getting on my cloths too.