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I was in the woods, thinking about random stuff. I was thinking about how to hide stuff from my brothers. Then it hit me! Hide it inside a tree. So I found a pine tree, that was kind of out of the way, and tried to figure out how to do this. This is the process I went through to make a pretty cool hiding spot in a tree.
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Step 1: Find a Tree

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First you need to figure out what you need to hide. If it is too big to fit in a soft-wooded tree that is near you, then you will need to find a different hiding place. I found one in my backyard, out of the way, where noone really went that much. I reccomend pine, but any soft-wood tree will work.

Step 2: Make a Small Hole

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Start by carving a small hole into the tree, with a pocket knife. This is best done by stabbing into the tree and then twisting.

Step 3: Make a Square

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Draw a square/rectangle in the wood around the hole that you just made. Then draw line down through the square, dividing it into however many parts you think is good. Then, to get the bark off, stick the edge of your knife under the bark and seperate it using the strips.

Step 4: Dig In

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Just start carving into the wood, making the hole deeper and deeper. I decided to go for length instead of depth, but it's up to you.

Step 5: The Cover

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Now you have to find another type of your tree rather far away. Then you need to cut off a peice of bark the size of your hiding hole. You need to then cut a homemade type of tac that will hold the cover on. The reason you need to use a peice of wood to attach it, is so that it looks natural, as long as someone doesn't look too closely.

Step 6: Finally

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Now, you need to tac the bark cover onto the tree. When you do this, you need to only tac the top, so you can open/close the hole when you need to get stuff in/out. Now you have a hole that you can hide random stuff in. I hid my knife in there, so my brothers couldn't find it and hurt themselves. (I'm so caring, I know.) I know the cover doesn't completely cover it, but I made this in like 10 minutes, so it's ok. And I didn't take the bark from a tree away from the hole, but whatever.
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I just want to say.
I am truly sorry about all of these treehuggers ruining your instructables.
People need to understand that a tiny hole in a tree wont kill it.
Keep Posting!
If it's wrong to hurt trees then you shouldn't eat any type of vegetables or fruits or anything like that. And there's plenty of things I would hide in a tree instead of in my house. But nature eats nature that's how life is so if a monkey can eat a banana or a dog can dig a hole you can scar up a tree
I just want to say.
Keep Posting!
LePyro4 years ago
Geocaching here i come...
psplayer237 years ago
what would you need to hide in a treee that you cant keep in your pockets or houes????????? its not worth hutring a tree to hide something. how would you like it if someone made a hole in you to hide stuff
1. Trees don't have nerves, so they can't feel it when you strip a little bit of bark off, or hollow out a little hole.

2. This probably wasn't enough damage to kill the tree.

3. Trees don't have souls.
HAHA thanks for pointing out the obvious for that guy lol
Rainh2o Suggens5 years ago
Nothing has a soul...what makes people think we are any different then the rest of nature...

Worst reason ever.
 have you ever pooped a balloon?
True. It is an appeal to emotion one of the most basic fallacies. Premise 1: Author hurt a tree to hide something. Premise 2: Hurting trees is bad. Conclusion: Author did something bad. This is a sound argument I do find fault w/ premise 2 but assuming all premises are true the conclusion is true. Appeal to emotion Premise 1: I would not like it if someone made a hole in me to hide stuff Conclusion: I shouldn't make a hole in things to hide stuff. See the problem, there is no connection bettween me and what I like and other things.
I don't understand.
Its a logic agument checking for a validity. Imagine that all premises are true and if that makes the conclusion ALWAYS true then it is a good argument if not it is never a argument that works.
I proved that even if his points where both true. His conclusion isn't true. just because you don't think something is right(moral) doesn't mean its the right decision(practically).
zigzagchris5 years ago
I understand the concept but for such lack of "hiddeness" I think digging a whole under a rock is a better idea. I guess mabee if you put it high up in a tree (more then you often look up) it could work
lurch50387 years ago
Would you like someone to come along and skin you shin so they could hide their brothers marbles? Come on. Not only is it pointless destruction of living things, but it's going to be plainly obvious in a few hours that that bark doesn't belong to that tree
I agree. I am NOT a Tree hugger nor do I belive in global warming but IT KILLS LIVING THINGS including animals
so_simple98 (author)  garrett107 years ago
how does it kill animals?
1.Becase that tree might have bugs that an animal eats and once that tree dies it might not have anything to eat and then the animal dies 2.the tree could fall and kill any birds in it. 3.what did that poor old tree ever do to you.(I AM NOT A TREE HUGGER)
Yeah, and when that tree falls not only might it kill a few birds, but it might land on top of someones home, and kill a child while the child was sleeping. AND that child might've grown up and been a veterinarian and saved a whole bunch of other animals.

Just so you know, that hole isn't big enough to kill the tree.

It you were really going to do this, there will most likely be more trees, and bugs that the animal eats in more then just that tree.
so_simple98 (author)  garrett107 years ago
I like how you read the comments below, you know, the ones that actually make sense. 1. There is more than that one tree that animals can get bugs from, it is a FOREST. 2. It was a very small tree, there were no birds nests in it. And a bird can fly, so if the tree started to fall, the bird would fly away. 3. What did the poor old tree ever do to you is THE most treehugger comment I have ever heard.
I meant a baby bird I have seen a baby bird fall out of a tree and blood spilled out of its mouth. I AM NOT A TREEHUGGER I AM ANIMALHUGGEER
so_simple98 (author)  garrett107 years ago
No birds nest, baby birds can't fly, how would a baby bird get in the tree?
because a mother layed them
so_simple98 (author)  garrett107 years ago
How many times must I say this, there is NO birds nest in the tree. In order for the mother to lay them there, there has to be a nest.
Oh sorry I didint understand the comment from jul 1,2008 8:14. :-0
so_simple98 (author)  garrett107 years ago
Its cool, as long as you understand now.
There are a few things I didn’t get. If they were mentioned of below in the other comments, my apologies, but this time I didn’t enjoy reading down al the way.

Firstly, why damage two trees? Why not just carefully remove the bark and reuse it in the first one? I mean; wouldn't it be exactly the same bark structor? Have I missed out on something?
(For the anti-treehuggers: No need to get childish. It DOES damage the tree. The tree is “lesser” from that day on (Actually in this case two trees). And they shall have to try to recover. For the tree huggers; a tree will try to live in spite any pests or vandals as presented... will it be impaired? DEFINITELY. But to say it will die would be too soon to predict. I hope it won’t)

Secondly, how are you going to prevent the hiding place from closing up? You may not be aware that when you wound a tree, they try to heal. In this process they create a cambium layer that slowly covers the whole created. Even if your hiding place starts to rot, in time there will be a rim around the area of healing.
Thus is this a temporary measure?

Last of all; a very personal opinion would be for “since you were going to go through all this trouble and harm”; I would really have wished your concealing to look a lot more concealing than this. There are so many ways to hide anything in the forest or even in a single tree without doing any harm.

I am very sorry but I shall have to down rate it since I don’t see point. And I find little use in proportion to the cost.
so_simple98 (author)  BlackDidThis6 years ago
Alright, its been 8 months since i did this, and the bark did heal over my knife, and it really is concealed. Both trees are doing just fine, they have both healed up.
and the bark did heal over my knife
Is it still like that? I would like to see a picture
vestie6 years ago
I like the idea. Might have saved you time to bury it at the bottom of the tree so that the tree is a marker. Also on a non-significant side note the tree wouldn't have to regrow some bark. BOOO WHOOO.
Pretty cool idea. I like the place you guys are at-- is that at a park? Or like your backyard?
Pretty cool, that is, if you like destroying trees. Really, someday, some idiot is going to cut down the last trees and there goes our main supply of oxygen.
I sure hope that one tree isn't our main supply of oxygen when there are easier ways to remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere. What most likely be the problem is to much of Carbon Dioxide or other non oxygen gases not not enough oxygen.
so_simple98 (author)  GorillazMiko7 years ago
Yeah, it's my backyard.
chuckr447 years ago
You can usually find a natural hollow in a tree to hide things. That's what geocachers do. Go to geocaching.com and read in the forums and look for the best ideas for hiding spaces. Geocachers do this all the time. I'm not an enviro-nut but harming a tree just isn't necessary.
The problem is, if you make a hole, two things could happen. Either the hole is too high up, and the items you put in are stuck in there, or The hole is too low, so whatever your trying to hide isn't safe from being stolen
How to mutilate not one, but two trees.
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