Having a De-Vine day!

[Bucknut]

For anyone who thinks they might be having a shit day....... I present to you a red oak, about 70', literally overwhelmed by wisteria vine. Picture is after 1.5 hours starting at the top.

Fun fact: this stuff appears to have roughly the same tensile rating as EHS cable, even when dead. And it's all going to land in a tangled mess on top of a 12 foot tall taxus hedge.
Seriously testing my anger management skills.

Around here wisteria is usually a container plant, or maybe used to climb an arbor or trellis. Not this one. My curiosity regarding this vine is fully satisfied.

 

[Steve Connally]

I feel you brother. I spent Tuesday doing almost the same thing but 7 trees. All over 120'. I got almost 4 done then it rained thank goodness. I think whoever sells the job should do the vine removal. It's only fair rite?

 

[oldoakman]

The only thing worse is kudzu, and even that may be a tie between the two.

 

[Bucknut]

The only thing worse is kudzu, and even that may be a tie between the two.

Yeah, I've never dealt with kudzu, but hear it's lovely. I guess there's always a silver lining, right?

On the plus side, at least the bucket could get to it, and the weather was great. Still, I'd rather be fishing in Montana, all things considered.

 

[oldoakman]

In the spring around here, it is a wall of purple. Not sure how other things survive.

 

[Steve Connally]

I got off easy because it was dead English Ivy but still wasn't dead enough to just pull off. Had to break it off 3 or 4 feet at a time. Yours wounds worse though.

 

[CutHighnLetFly]

No word of a lie I have actually had nightmares of wisteria after spending a day devining a red maple. 7"+ caliber stem on the wisteria.

 

[LimbLoppa]

In the spring around here, it is a wall of purple. Not sure how other things survive.

At my first apartment, I parked under a Hackberry tree that had a monster Wisteria vine growing out of a cavity about 8 ft up. It was freakin beautiful! In the Spring, the birds ate the Hackberries, shit on my car and the Wisteria blooms would fall and stick to the birdshit. It looked like I drove an effin parade float!

 

[Treezybreez]

A week ago I was cutting three dead pine that were covered in Wisteria. The entire aria was covered in the vines making it difficult to even walk. I accessed all of them from a live pine that was in just the right location. Sure is difficult to estimate time, whenever I'm dealing with vines.