Would you burn this in your stove ?

[Jim Ignatowski]

The prior owner of my property neglected it for years and many of the trees were strangled by very large vines. They've all been cut and most are dead now ... When it's windy I always have something falling out of the remaining trees. My question is ... Would anyone burn these vines? I can't say with certainty that this is or isn't poison ivy. The property used to be covered with English Ivy and there was plenty of poison ivy too. I handle this stuff without gloves and have burned it in my chiminea before which would probably be a lot more dangerous that using my stoves. It burns really fast and hot and gets things started quickly. What do you think?

Thanks

 

[firefighterjake]

Looks like wild grape vines ... as mentioned ... once it dries it burns very fast. Me personally I wouldn't bother burning it or processing it unless you're in need of "kindling".

 

[firefighterjake]

Forgot to mention ... those grape vines love to strangle other trees ... and they are quite invasive in the sense that once they start growing in an area it's hard to get rid of them ... I'm always cutting, pulling and burning these vines in my brush piles.

 

[bassJAM]

I've cut up a few pieces before when they were wrapped around a tree I was dropping and the bottom of the vine was as big as my bicep, but that's only because I needed to cut it anyway to remove it from the tree and it was easy to pick it up with the rest of the tree. Personally I don't think I'd collect it otherwise, but I'm not in a position of needing wood either.

like firefighterjake, I cut every live vine of that I see. When I first bought my house, I spent several hours walking through the woods with a hatchet and killing it.

 

[littlalex]

As a coincidence, I was out in my back 40 prepping my man shed which has a nice little old cast stove and nicely done chimney and I discovered to my horror that the nasty grape vine had slithered across the neighbors fence and decided to do a deep exploration of my flue, in and out and around. No problem thought I, I'll just untangle it and move on...you know the rest.

Only reason I bring it up is for decades I've been chiding the wife how I want a "natural" yard, no lawns, etc. and teasing her how did she decide weeds from flowers.

But here I sit, clippers, hatchet and propane torch at hand, sipping coffee and thinking dark thoughts about how I'm first to start maiming and then killing the beast, waiting out there wrapped around my sad hapless chimney, now half on the ground... only thing missing is camo paint ala Sheen in Apocalypse.

The rush is building until I won't be able to stand it. If you don't hear from the guy who writes long tedious posts, you'll know who won.