Poison Ivy Everywhere....

[@sassafrasvalley1939]

Pete… my neighbor moved there from the city about 15 years ago. He knew so little about plants, he thought cedars were pine trees. At any rate, his side of the property line was thick with poison ivy. Mine was fairly clear , due to years of work. The day I met him, he walks over to the fence line to greet me…. It is a sweltering July day so he is dressed in just a pair of athletic shorts and flip-flops. I was fixing fence and spraying poison Ivy so I was dressed in long sleeves, pants and boots. Because I’d watched him wade through waist deep poison Ivy, I mentioned it to him. His response? “It doesn’t bother me. I’ve never had a problem before. And besides, I always avoid vines growing on trees, like those.” I look over and see that he is pointing to a grapevine. So, I point to the path he made through the brush and tell him… “Leaves of three, let it be…” and show him that nearly 20 feet of his path has been nothing but that! After we exchange a few ‘Welcome to the neighborhood’ greetings I watch him walk back through the patch…. Totally confident that he has immunity. The next time I see him, he tells me all about his trip to his doctor, loss of work days and all of the medication he is taking to try to build up his immunity to Poison Ivy. It seems, that his little walk through the woods a month ago has turned a city boy who couldn’t a grapevine from a poison Ivy vine… into an expert on which one is which. His next lesson? Poison Ivy can’t hurt you if you don’t touch the leaves. That one came when he used a pruning saw overhead to cut one out of a tree… I guess all those folk remedies he was using didn’t build his immunity as much as he thought! We joke about it now… but, he sure spends a lot of money on brush killer for a plant he once thought was his buddy!!! Stay safe partner… that stuff is out to get ya!

[@timothymilam732]

Having the Blessing of no ill effects from poison ivy, poison oak, are wasp stings other than the was wasp stings do sometimes hurt like it's on fire. No swelling, and typically even if it was several red wasp, either variety or yellow jackets the irritating stings go away within minutes. The plants themselves have never effected me in any way, even though I have somewhat fair complexion freckles, but thankfully no flaming red hair auburn was my younger days. I mow and trim the fence on my neighbors frontage nearly 400' of it around 15' between his fence and the road. With a scattering of oaks, cedar and both varieties of above mentioned species. I typically mow on my garden tractor as it works the ditches mush better than zero turn does. But Tee shirt, a pair of cut offs, and most of the time flip flops to run my big weed eater, and if you have ever been to NE Texas in the summer, then you know how hot and sticky it usually is regardless of whether it's rained in two months or not. Him and his wife never fail to be amazed at the fact although it's flying everywhere whether off the side discharge of mower, are off the end of the weed eater going zillion miles and hour just slinging it everywhere. It can't help but stick on me wherever it may land, and sweat is pouring out of me as if someone turned a hose bibe on inside me. Yet never a rash bump blister swollen body nuthin. Whereas Tommie looks more like a 4 th degree burn patient than his normal 5'8" 145 lbs if he so much as picks some up bare handed. Then he'll spend the next two to three weeks in the hospital recovering from the effects of no more than that much exposure. So in trade he feeds my cows when I go somewhere for any amount of time causing me not to be able to do it myself. That and Mrs. Debbie always has a couple cold pops with foam on top whenever I'm done there.

[@nuts319]

Your lucky

[@timothymilam732]

@@nuts319 in that instance, but you ever seen what the sun does to a little freckled kid compared to someone who has dark complexion like my younger brother. He's got blue black hair, or he did. We worked in hvac all our lives, but he was service technician and I was sheet metal construction. Both in heavy commercial industrial type work, and we both spent our lives in the outdoors either working or fishing on front of bass boats on Texas. At the end of May he is this dark complexion like native Americans Latino type skin, and same parents. Right, but I'm this red glowing person by the end of everyday out in the Texas sunshine and heat. Next morning I'm back to golden freckles once I was grown. But as a kid man after few hours playing outside in cut offs barefoot, by the evening time I've got blisters the size of eggs on each shoulder nose is glowing make ole reindeer look like a 2 watt bulb two years of steady use compared to me. Him he just gets darker and darker me more and bigger freckles until about 17 then turn red next day golden in morning glowing stop light by dark. So it might be nice in one aspect but the other is a ever changing environment after 60 plus years of heavy dosages of Mr Sunshine. Nothing major, yet, but the days are ticking down to the one that ends up costing me because of my love for the outdoors whether working are couching sons ball teams to fishing and just totally dislike of clothing except what is required by neighbors cut offs flip flops ball cap on off hours. Finally got like my mom's side of the family long denim shirts long jeans tee shirt bal cap every day outside full sleeve down total cover except ears nose hands but too late after too many thousands of hours exposed. But hey poison ivy poison oak sumac no problem but that bright fire ball in the sky probably gonna win the long haul. But wouldn't change a thing about that aspect of my life.

[@willardnicholson8026]

I feel for you about the poison ivy great video buddy 👍

[@saltrock9642]

I’m not allergic to the stuff which is why I hang deer stands in it. Good luck!

[@rogerwiley7269]

What you call turn trees we called twitch poles. Great videos.

[@StumpjumperVideosPA]

You from Maine dammah boy !

[@StumpjumperVideosPA]

Rite dowt da twitch path to da yaaad !

[@rogerwiley7269]

You hit the nail on the head Stump! (WickedfrigginMainah)@@StumpjumperVideosPA

[@StumpjumperVideosPA]

Oh Sasquatch dont get no p ivey !!!

[@pekerja27]

Kalau nebang di hutan enak tanpa resiko , kami disini di jalan raya

[@scottyritenour6079]

Good luck avoiding all that poison ivy. I'm one of the lucky ones that doesn't get it no matter how much exposure.

[@09FLTRMM77]

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼………………………………………………. I broke out in poison ivy blisters watching this video!! Now I got to go get a cortisone shot!! LOL

[@charlesmullins3238]

As I type I’ve got tissue matted to a knot size of a softball where I got into sumac Saturday…vine touched my arm plum up to my armpit and big streaks all up it…probably need shot but I’ve hated this shit many yrs and just dea with it….damn it

[@Daddyjohn1971]

I hate posin ivy, cudzu, and grape Vines

[@oldtimerf7602]

We call them bump trees, or rub trees.

[@evanclark7473]

I’m right there with you with the poison ivy. Cut a holler of timber a little while ago that seemed like 75% of the trees were covered in it. I started taking Cutter poison ivy scrub to the woods and washing off with it in a cool creek on breaks and it seemed to help.

[@stannelson2582]

Good luck with the ivy battle. Night shade vine gets me every few years ugh.

[@williamellis8993]

I'm also with you, Pete. I hate poison ivy, too. It seems to pop up all over the place, woods or not. Bill

[@billyshumate853]

Great video Pete. Know all about the turn tree's. Take care and have a blessed and safe day

[@Pa-Logging-instructor]

I had the worst breakout of ivy I ever had this year…had it on my belt line and it scared bad…I actually bled…hate that stuff…are you taking any SFI game of logging classes this year…we’ll be down your way…would be great to have you in class

[@nuts319]

I haven’t really planned on it

[@Pa-Logging-instructor]

@@nuts319 ten four

[@waynetharp]

What the heck is a Cucumber tree??? We have poison ivy just about everywhere. I could not image having to worry about getting it like you do.🙄

[@nuts319]

Just like poplar

[@nhmountains5683]

I hate poison ivy. We don't have huge vibes anywhere near me. I can spot the smaller stuff pretty easy now.

[@redbonemike17]

Good job Pete ...... I can't get near that stuff .......You going to Bunyon this year ?

[@nuts319]

Yep

[@robertkennedy3632]

Hey Pete 👋 , thanks for the video.

[@m.teeple87]

Awesome cutting on that leaner! Stay safe bud.

[@Southernpride1]

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