The trunk of the vine was a good inch through, giant leaves a foot across on it.

We paid a tree trimming service to remove it. ;-)

When I was a kid, we cleared a few hundred square yards of land for a garden at my parent's cottage. Well, the roots we were pulling out turned out to be poison ivy, and I spent the next two weeks with my entire body swollen (ENTIRE body...). I am very about touching that crap now...