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Round up works fine on poison ivy. The only people that bitch about Round up, ain't the people that use it.

I haven't been around much as of late. Been camping and fishing on the creek property for the last month. The Holston River has been good to me for the last 2 months except for a prop that was completely destroyed and a mean azz case of poison ivy/oak. I have had it on the back of my thighs and between my fingers for 4 weeks. I have bathed in clorox, Aveno oatmeal powder and Epsom salt, taken prednisone, basted myself with Ivy dry, calamine, caladryle, ivearest, hydrocortisone, and steroid cream. I first had it on my feet and ankles and it dried up but the patch on my legs, between my fingers, on my arms and a patch on my stomach won't give up. I wash in poison ivy soap after I have been out and I still end up with a new patch every week. The smallmouth fishing has been awesome so it's been worth it but damn if it isn't torture when you get to digging at it.

I put out some limb lines and run them at night and caught a bunch of cats between 5 and 10 pounds, flat heads and channels. I hadn't put out limb lines since I was in high school. The Grass has been worse this year than I have seen it in 20 years up there. The last 6 weeks have been so bad the only thing you can fish is a grass frog or horns toad or punch the grass mats with a heavy Texas rig.

Back to the prop, I'm always prepared, prepared to bum a pair of pliers from a farmer to straitened the prop out. I'm also always prepared, prepared to fish sleeveless all day because I forgot to replace the tp in my boat. Holy hell I have been having a blast. Can't get pics to post. If you want pics go to bushcraftusa.com and look at creekside homestead under the preparedness/homestead forum. Come and see me, we will camp, fish, eat and drink.

I always got the job of cleaning out the growth around the tree stands.

Seems i was the only one that both of these plants did not bother.
Must have been from growing up in the swamps of MS.
Man i miss those days.

Living the Dream like a weekend warrior. I'd give my right nut and a good portion of my left one to live up there.

I want to do it all off grid so idk exactly how I'm gonna do it. The well is 40 foot deep and the water is 17 foot deep, I don't know if a 12 volt system of some kind will work. Id like to do solar and led for lights, heat will be easy, a wood stove and a propane wall heater. Hot water and ac are the other concerns. I can't live without it, I'd give up hot water first.

About 33' is the max lift for water with a suction pump at sea level. If your pump says 36', they're stretching the laws of physics. You need a submersible pump to pull it from any deeper. At higher elevations, the max lift is less.
At any rate, be sure you have a check valve at the bottom. If the water drains out of the pipe, you have to bring it all the way up from the bottom every time you turn it on.

Interesting. I have been immune all my 57 years. Can roll in it and have accidentally done so with no harm. 10 years ago I got something trapped in a sock while brush busting that welled up pretty good. Since then I have brushed up against it several times with no adverse reaction. I have an aunt who would break out on skin when a neighbor was burning vines anywhere within a mile.