This is my most hated fencing job. I just scrubbed myself head to toe in dawn dishwashers liquid when I got done. I’m tying a very old fence into a very new fence. Yes I put in both. Look closely at the plants!!! I’m wading through and pulling fence in poison ivy!!! This is a border for an old garden that rested 7 years and I just converted to a vineyard.
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Nightmare!
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Have you considered using triclopyr herbicide or having a designated lawnmower for whacking that stuff back a few weeks in advance? That looks like the stuff of nightmares for those of us who react to the urushiol.
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Anyone ever tried desensitizing themselves to poison ivy by eating it? I’d never try it myself, but supposedly it can work.
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I would spray that first then wait a couple weeks. Not worth the rash
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Everyone has always told me why I can’t do things. The truth is I did this myself because It is a bad job. I’m very cautious nowadays because my mother lost her immunity to poison ivy at 50. I did as well , but thankfully I still have some tolerance. When I get poison ivy generally it’s bad. I will make 5 or 6 more passes through there to clean it up. Poison ivy is not as strong this time of year.
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That sounds… awful.
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Putting up fencing is already quite a chore without itchy plants all over!
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Poison ivy while fencing is genuinely awful. Hope the dawn soap did the job — that stuff works surprisingly well if you get to it fast enough.
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NO! PLEASE do not do that in any shape or form.
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Why? 
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I think I would have used the Mr. Krabs technique.
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They make a barrier cream you can put on that coats your skin, then you scrub it off.
I wear long sleeves and I’m pretty careful and scrub after and still managed to get a little the other day - not fun!
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When I do get poison ivy.. I can take a benadryl at bedtime for a few nights and it drys up and goes away.. sleep good too.
TNHunter
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Fill a spray bottle with rubbing alcohol.
When you are working around poison ivy, frequently spray your tools, pants, gloves, anything that may have contacted the poison ivy with the rubbing alcohol.
Rubbing alcohol will neutralize the urushiol on contact.
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It needed done for the vineyard.
I have heard of people burning it and inhaling the fumes which ended badly. They had it inside their body!!!
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Yah, dont burn it. That can turn seriously bad, fast.
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I wish I was immune like my dad. He says he used to get it a lot as a kid, but now it doesn’t bother him whatsoever, and we usually let him do the big time poison ivy areas when we do fence. Me, I just have to see it to get the rash all over that has the itch persist for weeks after all visible signs of rash gone.
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