Vines.

[hl_tree]

I am simply going to start this thread by saying "Vines" and see where it goes. To be a little more specific, I am going to say "Oriental bittersweet"

 

[Colin]

Vines suck!

 

[Tom Dunlap]

It's a rare vine that doesn't deserve to go through the chipper.

 

[Jeremy9]

I agree vines do suck. Everything hanges up, and there hard to chip. Anytime I see vines the price goes up.

 

[Colin]

I once cut a poison ivy vine that was 10" across, with over 35 annual rings.

 

[hl_tree]

I think I have you beat on the poison ivy front Butch, we once had a single vine that was so big it wouldn't fit through the opening on the 12" chipper.

 

[Colin]

Wow, imagine if the fresh sap from that made contact with your flesh.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Aren't you guys concerned about getting PI after the vine goes through the chipper? I'd be cnocerned about any of the oils that got airborne. Or what about any oils on the inside of the chipper and chip truck.

Add "keeps viney PI away" to the list of reasons a good cold winter is good. Keeps many of the nasty bugs and snakes away too

 

[thattreeguy]

tom no b..ls no glory chip or burn poison oak same problem AIRBORNE particles...vines suck, burn them all..i like to see a fecon bull hog run over em all...i fortunately dont get the itch ..but my wife and kids do..badly. so does my crew..i once sent a guy thru p, oak and sumac with a brush mower..poor fellow was purple for weeks
...same fellow and i working firelines on the Canoe Creek fire..10' deep in a gulch ..blackberries and p oak sawing it down using a mcloud to pull it back and a mini excavator to pull out the piles..on our 2nd or 3 rd day he turns to me and says" ya know , sometimes i f...ing hate you" and went back to sawing..3 weeks of sawing there and i got home and gave it to my wife immediately..

 

[hl_tree]

A couple times I have had to go up trees where I LITERALLY climbed the poison ivy vines, they were so dense. That always left me itching for at LEAST a week.

 

[Colin]

Oral Ivy really works for me, and has for the last decade.

At least!

I give it the Blaster's Seal Of Approval!!!

 

[thattreeguy]

suck it up and drive on with your mission!!! if only i could have gotten my crew to follow that mantra,and itch their way to the bank..

 

[Colin]

Or the Emergency Room.

 

[thattreeguy]

emergency rooms are for city people...lets hear it for respirators