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Old 05-09-2019, 11:09 AM
 
Location: River's Edge Inn, Todd NC, and Lorgues France
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Pay $5 and run an ad in Craigslist services section. You will get 50 emails of people offering to do it for next to nothing. $20-$50 easily. I do this very frequently when I have odd jobs I dont want to do. If you call a company most wont want to deal with a small job and they are going to overcharge you. It doesn't take rocket science to remove it. You just need someone willing.
Pay $5 to receive 50 emails ? No thanks.
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Old 05-09-2019, 11:10 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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An ax to the vine. Cut out a few inches and pour stump killer on the stump.
It will be history.

Scary stuff for anyone who gets poison ivy badly, though.
Whatever you do, don't burn it or toss it in the fire. Can still get poison ivy symptoms from the smoke.

If you have smaller plants in the area, multiple treatments will be needed. Spraying now will kill off the top of the plant but will likely re-sprout. In the late summer, photosynthates will move downward to store food in the roots and you definitely need a fall application also. Look for Trimec or something with 2,4-D ester plus dicamba and mix with glyphosate. Spray when it's not windy or when rain is imminent (I think the rainfast period is ~ 12 hours).
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Old 05-09-2019, 11:10 AM
Status: "Made the Retirement Run in under 12 parsecs!!!" (set 14 days ago)
 
Location: Cary, NC
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Pay $5 to receive 50 emails ? No thanks.
Eh.
Just gotta have disposable email addresses.
Yahoo will let you have 500 at a time.
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Old 05-09-2019, 11:22 AM
 
Location: NC
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Some people are not allergic to poison ivy. Those are the ones who will get rid of it for you, by pulling it out of the tree.

When you cut that huge 2 inch stem at the base it will probably never come back from there. I've cut it down several times and in 10-15 yrs it has never come back from the old stem.

What you do need to watch for is little seedlings that pop up every once in a while. Birds love to eat the seed that are produced and fly everywhere pooping out seed. So learn what young plants look like and keep a little spray bottle of herbicide handy. Glyphosate works well.
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Old 05-10-2019, 05:47 AM
 
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Pay $5 to receive 50 emails ? No thanks.
You are paying $5 to find someone to provide a service for less than a company would charge. Was it really that hard to comprehend
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Old 05-10-2019, 05:52 AM
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Location: Cary, NC
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Or, respond to an ad for free...


https://raleigh.craigslist.org/searc...ery=poison+ivy

I know nothing about this operation...
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Old 05-10-2019, 05:58 AM
 
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Eh.
Just gotta have disposable email addresses.
Yahoo will let you have 500 at a time.
Craigslist hides your email address so nobody has it. You run the ad, get the responses, delete the ad. This isn't rocket science. Not sure why people find it so complicated. I've done this more than 50 times to find someone to do odd jobs. Here is an example of the ad.

"Need someone to remove large poison Ivy vine. Base is over 2" thick. My home is located in ***** near *****. Need this done ASAP. Please email me your name, number, and the price you would charge, and how soon you can remove it.


You will get a lot of responses. Find the person that answered the questions and for a good price. Or call a company and pay 5x and thats if you can find someone.


FYI if you want the best thing to kill anything growing, it's this stuff https://www.amazon.com/Compare-N-Sav...gateway&sr=8-2

41% glysophate you dilute. This stuff killed a crepe myrtle for me. It's that strong. Better than anything you will buy at Home Depot or Lowes.
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Old 05-10-2019, 06:08 AM
 
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OP, the vine is a symptom. There is more in the ground and it sends runners out to other areas nearby. If you have ever pulled poison ivy you will see it spreads like vine on the ground. Once you eliminate that vine on the tree you will still need to keep watching for more that will spout up nearby. It is very difficult to 100% eliminate poison especially since it has already grown to a thick vine on your tree, that indicates it has been there for some time. Killing the stump with knock it it back but it will not be gone from your yard.

I back to a stream buffer with land owned by a commercial property. Their landscapers were not much help. They cut the vines but I think they used round up which is not effective on poison ivy. We have been dealing with this for years. One thing I do is check annually and cut new vines from trees in the fall/winter, when they have no leaves. I remove the portions from the lower parts of the tree.
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Old 05-10-2019, 06:11 AM
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Location: Cary, NC
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OP, the vine is a symptom. There is more in the ground and it sends runners out to other areas nearby. If you have ever pulled poison ivy you will see it spreads like vine on the ground. Once you eliminate that vine on the tree you will still need to keep watching for more that will spout up nearby. It is very difficult to 100% eliminate poison especially since it has already grown to a thick vine on your tree, that indicates it has been there for some time. Killing the stump with knock it it back but it will not be gone from your yard.

I back to a stream buffer with land owned by a commercial property. Their landscapers were not much help. They cut the vines but I think they used round up which is not effective on poison ivy. We have been dealing with this for years. One thing I do is check annually and cut new vines from trees in the fall/winter, when they have no leaves. I remove the portions from the lower parts of the tree.

I have had very good luck stifling growth by killing the stumps and using the stump killer linked above. I drench the stump multiple times over a few days.

But, yes, Roundup is entirely the wrong chemical for the job, for stump killing or poison ivy killing. Note that neither stump killing nor poison ivy killing is a labeled use of the product.
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Old 05-10-2019, 06:28 AM
 
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Glyphosate is the generic form of Roundup.
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