wild grape vines

Poison Ivy vines also provide food for the creatures-they got berries too. Why do you think they can popup in the middle of nowhere but usually under a tree or bush? Birds love to eat those berries/seeds too.

I don't have much of a problem with poison ivy, but some of my family members do. We have a very nice crop around here. When I first bought this place, I cut off some vines as big around as my wrist and growing 80 ft. up in cherry and walnut trees. I've read that the vines can grow hundreds of feet underground, hence the sprouting up out of nowhere. I have to watch the little ones when they want to pick raspberries and I have to keep chopping it away from the area around the tree house. I don't really want to find out how allergic they are to the stuff. If I had my 'druthers, I'd settle for the grape vines.

Me also, I've never had a case of poison Ivy. However my Brother & Sister only have to look at it to get it! I can take a twig of poison Ivy and scratch my arm and not get it. My Doctor told me..... "not to push my luck".... ;D

I guess we're both either too tough or just too mean to catch Poison Ivy. ;D ;D

Call your county ag agent out before you start killing grape vines. The state will count them and then pay you for your time, equipment, fuel, ect used to kill them under T.S.I.

Use a chain saw, weed whacker with a blade or what ever else you happen to be using in the area to kill them. Cut them of above the ground so they don't reach dirt and then cut up the rest as close to the ground as you can. They will be dead and falling off the tree pretty quick.

I carry a machete on me or the atv all the time and whack any new ones or old ones I missed. Once you get the worst of them then the machete is the way to go for incidental vines you run across.

These are worth every penny.
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Something less expensive is the machete Gerber makes and is sold at Sportsmansguide.com. I like the looks of it but haven't tried it. I especially like the fact it has a saw option on the back of the blade. I cut a lot of vines with the saw on my Leatherman when I don't have any thing else with me.

I've never had a problem with any of them growing back. Any thing that needed cut again later was obviously over looked the first time through.

Just kill 'em all, you'll never get every single one any way so it's silly to pass one by on purpose. I cut grape vines and poison oak every time I see it. Poison Ivy? You may as well try to cut the grass in your yard as try to cut all the poison ivy in a woods. Any weed killer you would use on your lawn will kill poison ivy and poison oak also though.

While you are at it, whack every limb on every tree, creating as tall a trunk as you can reach before the first limb. Standard operating procedure for timber stand improvement. Great therapy, stress relief, and exercise all in one. Even if the state didn't pay a dime for it you are money ahead in the gym fees you'll save.

On the topic of chainsaws, if you need a chain saw, you need these.
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Get the good ones the pros use. This is no place to skimp. I bought mine where the timber guys in southern Indiana go, D&D Enterprises near Salem Indiana 812-883-3522.

Lumber people from 2 or three states go here to get their 2 cycle equipment fixed or replaced. They are the absolute best there is. The will ship any where but they really shine when you show up with saw you didn't put oil in or fell off the tractor and hit it with the bush hog. If it can be fixed at all, they will fix it and you take it back home with you when you leave.