Saturday, September 27, 2025

ERJ gets a job!

It looks like I picked up a 10 hour gig walking a property and marking Poison Ivy vines for later treatment with herbicide.

The property manager intends to paint the lower part of the Poison Ivy trunks with a mixture of diesel oil and triclopyr. By using a trim roller and only painting a strip of the stem, he can avoid killing the tree the vine is growing on.

He intends to do this after leaf-fall when there are fewer visitors to the property.

This is a good gig for me because I have the ability to identify Poison Ivy by its growth form, so even if it lost its leaves early I will still see a bunch of them. 

The time estimate might go out the window because there is a LOT of P.I. on the property and I expect to tag one about every 90 seconds. I will need to be nimble and efficient. The plan is for me to tie fluorescent surveyor's tape to a stick near the vine. Pipe cleaners might be faster but are much less visible.

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