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On my farm, along the fence lines, I get poison ivy growing and when I get it, I get it bad.
As that would causes the problem is the resin on the leaves, an oil sort of thing, I thought about it for a while. The poison ivy killer from the store doesn't work that well. After thinking about, I thought I would try some WD40 on it, WD40 is a solvent and breaks down oils, so I sprayed some on a patch of poison ivy.
Guess what? It works like a champ, just another use for the miracle of WD40.
If I am working around it, I have to wash down with bleach water, that keeps me from getting it.
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If you want to get the oils off of the poison ivy you can also take some Dawn dish detergent mix it with some water in your sprayer and spray it. The Dawn will strip the urishol (sp) oils off the leaves and then if you want to spray it with the poison ivy killer it will work great. also I've heard never tired it but heard that if you spray it with a dissolved rock salt mixture after striping the oils off it works good too.
As far as dealing with it when you get it on you I use TECNU. I've had great results with it. I also use rubbing alcohol to help get it off of me. I feel your pain as I'v had to do the series of steroids to help get rid of it.
Take care and Watch your step, Poacher.
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Poacher,
When I need to wash down in the field for poison ivy, I use a product called Ivy Cleanse, the also make Ivy Block. As that my machine shop uses a lot of WD 40 in my parts washer, that is handy for me to use and it works within an hour or two.
Thanks for the info,
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| Posted: Sun Jul 6th, 2008 09:00 PM |
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Solvents and oils will kill any green plant, so I guess WD 40 would work fine. Wouldn't seem very cost effective, though.
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Charley wrote: Solvents and oils will kill any green plant, so I guess WD 40 would work fine. Wouldn't seem very cost effective, though.
Charley, I can afford a lot of WD 40 compared to the time I spend laid up when I get PI on me. (By the time I see it, it's on me.) That said, I'm going to have a try with the detergent trick. Sounds like a good way to go.
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20% vinegar and some dish detergent will hammer green plants, including poison Ivy. No residual effect, either, like some herbicides. Pretty cheap to make as well.
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The last time the shop bought WD40, we bought a drum of it, which worked out to be about $6.21 a gallon. We filter it and reuse it. We have lost some to evaloporation and spills over the years, maybe 8 gallons or so in loss.
This is verses $19.97 for a 32 ounce bottle of Round Up Poison Ivy Killer or some such brand at Lowes.
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If you are exposed to PI and haven't started have the rash yet, vinegar or bleach or heavy duty soap/detergent will wash the resin away. Once you have there is not much you can do without going to teh doctors.
I can afford to loose time due to an itchy rash, so almost any method to dispose of it with me is fine. I learned many years ago, don't burn it. The resin just gets in the air and you get a very broad rash from that exposure.
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The vinager/detergent solution works much better than Roundup, IME. Don't like Glyphosates myself, waaaaaay to many folks, whether farmers or 'burbanites abuse/misuse them.
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Charley,
The shop and the house are in a different strata from my farm fields. The fields are all natural, nothing added, plant left over plowed back in. But I use chemicals around the house very sparingly. When I had a mouse probalem, and teh cats didn't do anything, I got some of that sticky card board stuff.
After the harvest this year I will plant turnips and alfa to get nitrogen back into the ground. Come spring they get tilled in to the ground. But this method of farming requires a lot of weeding by and hand or with a weed wacker.
Since I limited many chemical in my environment, my health has gotten much better.
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Rhus is a nasty plant in the cashew family Anacardiaceae.I've used tannic acid, calamine lotion,etc. to treat poison oak and ivy. Last edited on Sun Aug 17th, 2008 06:09 AM by sako06
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Year's ago, I had a 10 acre piece in the foot hills. Covered in poison oak. While I have never had it, my son got it bad. Eye's swelled shut, and the whole thing. My neighbor at the time convinced me to put his eight goat's on the place. It took two year's for them to extenguish the poison oak. It is still gone after fifteen year's. Just a thought. P.S. They will eat everything else too!
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I spent part of a summer as a wildlife aid with the Angeles NF which is loaded with poison oak and had it in several areas of my body,I left early to finish my BS in Wildlife Mgt so I could graduate,the guys I worked with ended up hospitalized as they were covered with blisters over most of their bodies,I vowed to never seek employment with the USFS as it was too much like being back in the service working 12 hour days getting paid for 8. The crew leader told me to strap on an indian backpak with 5 gallons of water and run the trails on my time.I told him to get lost. Last edited on Sun Aug 17th, 2008 07:15 AM by sako06
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Charley. did you mix the dish detergent with water? If so how much? I am very interested in this method of weed removal. I cant afford round up for the three acres i need to de weed.
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google up natural and safe brush & weed killer you'll find some info.
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Thank you very much
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This may sound crazy but I have used carburetor cleaner and brake parts cleaner to kill it of my hands and arms. I usually just scrape it with a knife until it bleeds then I give it a good soaking. It only burns for a minute or two but then it is usually gone by the next day or so and the itching will stop completely. 
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sako06 wrote: Rhus is a nasty plant in the cashew family Anacardiaceae.I've used tannic acid, calamine lotion,etc. to treat poison oak and ivy.
Never having any contact with either poison ivy or oak, I wonder if Benadryl lotion would relieve the rash and itch??? Anybody ever tried it??
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Cortisone shots and prednisone pills have been the two biggest ways for me to get relief from the rash and the itching.
This why I try the pound of prevention method because the ounce of cure has too many side effects.
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miestro_jerry wrote: Cortisone shots and prednisone pills have been the two biggest ways for me to get relief from the rash and the itching.
This why I try the pound of prevention method because the ounce of cure has too many side effects.
Jerry
Jerry, some folks aren't aware that steroids like the above have, as one of their side effects, the ability to reduce the body's resistance to infection...
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