I'm digging out all the long sleeve shirts I can find.
1.) It's friggin cold again.
2.) NOT in the pile from this past Sat.(what does get it off clothes? I'm hesitant to touch the laundry.)
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luckilly its not as itchy as a fire ant sting.....i woke up one morning and i had scratched my arm til it was a bloody mess in my sleep and never remembered even doing it...
Worst I had was a spider bite.
Never saw it. Tiny web on the mirror mount of my truck one morning. The first day it itched. I thought it was a mosquito bite.
The day after that I woke up with one forearm 4 times the size of the other. Numb for two weeks.
I still have mystery lumps and scars seven years later.
Still don't know what it was.
of poison ivy oil removal was using a really strong "oil breaking down laundry soap"....the bar was tan...(stil available) smelly like pine sol is... and its good for washing your hands....the oil can stay in dugarees for years if not washed ...especially if you were weed wacking and getting poison ivy sap/oil on your pant legs... you then have to soak them outdoors and use a scrub brush to really penetrate the fibers. then wash with real strong laundry soap. even washing your hands doesnt clean them of bacteria unless you use a brush to clean out all the nooks and crannies of your skin.same with clothes.
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the thing with poison ivy oil ...is that it penetrates your epidermial layer like nothin... and gets done to the subcutaneously layer that's bright red "seen only when you cut yourself bad". then the oil generates a response there and it creates a sore to expell the oil back up and out....of you... so thats why...it can get re-deposited back onto your skin, and transfered to other undesirable areas.
to smother it out than cut it out unless its on trees then cut the main roots with loppers...which you clean with precious gasoline later.
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to smother it: use an old section of carpet ....grass clippings and or black plastic with sand or soil or rocks to anchor it down. you can also spray it with 4 times the concentration of round up when your about to have four consecutive sunny days....although the new stuff (round up)claims to have water proof capability in 20 minutes....and thats a good thing!
I never caught it to last year, when I was a kid I'd rub the leaves on me and never caught it.worked around it in the rain yesterday and today I got a lump spoted rash on my neck and head didn't think I'd get it in the wetoke:
Thanks for the advice.
I appreciate all the info.
What's the biggest piece of plastic or carpet I can buy?
20x20?
30x30?
you need black plastic ok so the light wont get thru...
then it smothers it out with heat and no light.
you can buy that @ H.Depot -> 20' by 100'....
if that whole friggan hillside is covered with P. I.
then you got a big problem .... so get several rolls
and cover the whole thing...but then you have this huge rain
sheild sending rainwater water to your house...not good.
for less money you could buy a new pump up sprayer and round up
and spray the whole hillside.... if you can spray a swath 6 feet wide
then you string a string 6 feet down across the hill...
and use it as a guide then move it 6 feet down again..
.til you reach the bottom.
might wanna wait til sunny weather ....to do that.
the old method
didn't think I'd get it in the wet
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