Eenie, meenie, miny, moe... and still no winner

Why is it that EVERY tree that I want to set up in is covered in poison ivy?

It NEVER fails!!!

 

Now That Sucks!!!! I checked out a stand we put up a couple years ago to see if it was still in good shape and when I climbed up to it I noticed the biggest Wasp nest I have seen in awhile. You can bet I got out of there in a hurry!!!

 

I hear ya buddy.....Boy oh boy do I hear ya. I was prepping a tree a couple weeks ago and wore rubber gloves to pull all the vines off the tree. I thought for sure I would end up with it, but....alas I got lucky. Man I hate that stuff.

 

LOL!! Too funny Greg, last night I was climbing up a big oak and got to where I had to clear some branches and vines out of the way, my buddy was standing below me and whispered, dont you get poison ivy real bad, I replied yeah and immediately knew I was F'd lol. My hands are all jacked up, in between my fingers etc, oh man what a mess.

 

Got the ivy habging the first stand this year. hate it.

 

I get it bad at least once a year from hanging stands. The best trees always seem to be covered.

If you cut the vines at the base and let it go a week at least you won't have to contend with the leaves.

 

I hear ya, Andy... I had webbed fingers so bad when I was in undergrad school working at a sporting goods store I simply refused to work. I felt ok, but I looked SO gross! The owner of the store insisted I didn't look that bad, and could keep on ringing people up... I was like "Uh, no way..." If I were a customer, I'd have been grossed out. Seriously, the "webbing" extended halfway down my fingers...

Thankfully, that was the first year I learned about Kenalog shots. I have to get at least two a year, unfortunately.

We ran beagles a BUNCH growing up, and I'd oftentimes get it from handling them putting them back in their pens. Worst case was -- and you're not hardly going to believe this -- when I was like 7 or 8 and Dad and I were fishing a ditch bank under an old bridge. I had to go really bad, and didn't have any toilet paper... I grabbed a handful of leaves, and ... well, you guessed it. I was just COVERED from one end to the next a day or so later. Mom had to run warm water and pour corn starch in it and I'd just sit and soak almost all day. Missed almost a week of school from that little escapade.

 

Awe just hang the stand anyways, that's what I do. Never had the stuff, don't know what all the fuss is about. Ya big wussies.

 

Here's hoping you get a first-class dose of it at least once in your life! LOL

 

if you want some more i can send ya some, have all kinds of it growing in the ditches here lol.

 

Yep Greag I am not alergic to it either!! YOu want me to come on down and hunt that stand for ya!!! Walt

 

Yep Greg I am not alergic to it either!! You want me to come on down and hunt that stand for ya!!! Walt

 

I've been on "the juice" twice this summer after getting it all over my face I cant get near the stuff with out getting it

 

Ohh quit complaining and hunt already. Its just a little itchy scratchy, nothing a little hunting wont cure

 

I've got it all over my arms right now. Sure is a pleasure to wake up in the middle of the night scratching your flesh off Oh well, just part of the routine at this point. Last year I climbed my stand and started breaking small branches off of the adjacent tree and then I realized it was actually a poison ivy vine that I was handling. That was pretty fun. I swear sometimes I am amazed that my brain has enough power to remind me to breath.

 

I am lucky, never had any of the poison stuff.

 

I had it many times as a kid growing up on our Indiana farm, but I am now immune to it:d .

 

That is amazing. Usually allergies just get worse with age and further exposure. You are one lucky dog.

 

Same here. I dont seem to get it anymore either and I have been in it and didnt notice untill it was to late but didnt breakout?????