BirdNut
Senior Member
The wind this weekend blew an 18" dia. oak onto my dog kennel. The tree trunk and canopy are covered with poison ivy.
Anyone have any good ideas of how to deal with this without getting covered in ivy juice?
This is not just a little poison ivy, its an arm-thickness vine running all the way up the trunk on about a 60 or 70 foot tree. In terms of leaves, the poison ivy has more foliage than the tree itself.
I've heard of cutting a notch in the vine near the ground and pournig herbicide into the notch to kill the vine.
I need to get the tree off the kennel, but I can wait till the poison ivy dies. I don't think the cracking of the tree trunk impaired the vine at all.
Anyone have any good ideas of how to deal with this without getting covered in ivy juice?
This is not just a little poison ivy, its an arm-thickness vine running all the way up the trunk on about a 60 or 70 foot tree. In terms of leaves, the poison ivy has more foliage than the tree itself.
I've heard of cutting a notch in the vine near the ground and pournig herbicide into the notch to kill the vine.
I need to get the tree off the kennel, but I can wait till the poison ivy dies. I don't think the cracking of the tree trunk impaired the vine at all.