A machete? Scythe?

This thing:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ames-Double-Blade-Weed-Cutter-2915300/204476217

Okay, maybe not a machete ... but there's probably a similar tool that garden centers do carry.

And Home Depot also carries this scythe:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Razor-Back-12-in-Grass-Hook-with-Wood-Handle-62220/303209945

You'll also want a heavy duty shovel for getting invasive roots out, though some vines are actually easier to yank than dig.

We picked the double blade weed cutter when we were dealing with an overgrown area. Stand clear when someone's swinging ... its vicious.

Whack the mess to a manageable height (to the ground), dig out as much as you can, and cover with heavy black plastic to sun bake what's left. You'll still have some come back that you'll have to keep after, but it should help with a lot of it. Watch out for poison ivy, and good luck!

I have japanese honeysuckle coming up all over the place in the grass. I dug and hand pulled as much as I could, pretty much all of it, but I know I missed some roots and it will grow back. Next step is to let it grow and get taller then spray it with glyphosate during the late summer when its transporting energy to the roots.

It's going to take herbicide. Cutting and pulling leaves roots so amounts to being just a good pruning job ... which gets rid of nothing. If large vines are climbing, you'll need to cut them first so you can bring them down to a level where they can be sprayed.

You do need to make sure that conditions favor a new lawn and not the vines and weeds, once you get rid of them. A healthy lawn will help keeping the bad stuff from returning. Are conditions right for grass?

Thanks so much everyone for your input. We have cut away a lot of stuff pulled us some roots and cut off some of the thicker weeds and painted the tops with a brush killer. There are still these incredibly long roots or vines that stretch across the whole yard that I am uncertain of how to truly be rid of.

Was planning on pulling up as much as can and soaking it in a bucket of diluted weed killer.

once the weeds are delt with we were going to get a mower of some kind and cut down every thing and, mulch up the leaves that are down.

There has been a lawn out there in the past so i think it can sustain a lawn with better attention.

are these good next steps? and how long do i need to wait to see if herbicide has worked?

I have observed some hardy perennials take 2 to 3 weeks before they start to die back. And some need a second (or third) application. I have a shrub honeysuckle coming back this spring after I treated it last year.

Do you know what type of vine you have? There's a great name that plant forum here that can identify them if you need help. Knowing what something is can be helpful in a plan for removal.

I'm a little unclear how you plan to use diluted weed killer ... what's it's purpose and why is it diluted?

Leaves should start wilting within a few days to a week after herbicide poisoning if it's working. You won't know if it was systemically effective, though, until the roots either do or don't send up more shoots and suckers.

I ripped out a ton of honeysuckle vines. Used hedge trimmers and loppers to cut near to ground. Then used a very sturdy cultivator to rip up the roots, often digging with a hand held hoe with sharp blade to dig up more roots. It was awful and backbreaking but seems to have been fairly successful. Areas I missed roots started popping up in spring so I dug those out. Otherwise it's pretty clear.