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So today like most days I was pruning trees, raising them and clearing out dead wood on a property and I spotted a hollow in a small dead trunk and thought I bet I can make an arboreal hide out of that!! Cut the tree down and brought the log section back to my shop. Got a dremel and started the process of making it into a functional multiple entrance arboreal hide.
here’s what it looked like at the start. Pretty rough and jagged. Not that suitable for a T
So I began by trying to clear out the to-be hole in the side. Took a little while and two different bits to get the job done
and I made it through!
and started widening the hole
Then it was time to clean up the front entrance and remove some of the remnants of bark and pithy wood.
Here’s it all cleaned up and had a little fun creating some texture in the wood, and I hit it with some 100grit sand paper to smooth it down.
The last thing to do was to get it to stand up straight. If you see in the previous photo I have some pliers underneath the hide to stand it up staight.
Then I cleaned up the backside, made a hole in the back and cleaned up the sharp jagged edges on the bottom. And sanded all the insides of the holes to remove and sharp burs from the dremel.
Here’s the tentative finished product, I’m sure I’ll fiddle with the dremel on it more to give it more woodgrain texture.
only took about an hour to make a functional multiple entrance arboreal hide out of a small section of a dead tree.
front, side, and back-
I’ll probably leave it outside it the Texas sun this week, going to hit in the 100’s just to “bake” it a little bit. I’ll probably make a custom enclosure out of glass or acrylic just to be able to use this hide, but that’s awhile down the road until some of my arboreal slings grow up.
hope you guys liked this little arboreal log hide how-to.
So today like most days I was pruning trees, raising them and clearing out dead wood on a property and I spotted a hollow in a small dead trunk and thought I bet I can make an arboreal hide out of that!! Cut the tree down and brought the log section back to my shop. Got a dremel and started the process of making it into a functional multiple entrance arboreal hide.
here’s what it looked like at the start. Pretty rough and jagged. Not that suitable for a T
So I began by trying to clear out the to-be hole in the side. Took a little while and two different bits to get the job done
and I made it through!
and started widening the hole
Then it was time to clean up the front entrance and remove some of the remnants of bark and pithy wood.
Here’s it all cleaned up and had a little fun creating some texture in the wood, and I hit it with some 100grit sand paper to smooth it down.
The last thing to do was to get it to stand up straight. If you see in the previous photo I have some pliers underneath the hide to stand it up staight.
Then I cleaned up the backside, made a hole in the back and cleaned up the sharp jagged edges on the bottom. And sanded all the insides of the holes to remove and sharp burs from the dremel.
Here’s the tentative finished product, I’m sure I’ll fiddle with the dremel on it more to give it more woodgrain texture.
only took about an hour to make a functional multiple entrance arboreal hide out of a small section of a dead tree.
front, side, and back-
I’ll probably leave it outside it the Texas sun this week, going to hit in the 100’s just to “bake” it a little bit. I’ll probably make a custom enclosure out of glass or acrylic just to be able to use this hide, but that’s awhile down the road until some of my arboreal slings grow up.
hope you guys liked this little arboreal log hide how-to.