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Dewey's Handmade Squirrel Treehouse
Dewey's Handmade Squirrel Treehouse
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Dewey's Handmade Squirrel Treehouse
Hand-Torched at the Foot of the Smokies
Dewey Caudill, sixty-seven — two generations of fence-builders before him, and forty years building things for his neighbors' yards before he ever built one for the squirrels. His father raised barns and mended fence line. Dewey just started torching the boards instead of painting them.
Handmade · this season's batch“I quit trying to keep them out of everything. Now I just give ‘em someplace better to be, and let them sort out the rest.”
What It Does for Your Yard
A squirrel doesn't raid your feeder out of spite — it just goes wherever the food already is. Give it a stocked spot of its own, and a lot of that traffic moves over on its own. It won't end every visit; nothing reliably does.
Squirrels don't nibble a tomato where it hangs — they carry the whole thing off and leave a chewed scrap behind. Give them an easier meal a few feet away, stocked and ready, and a lot of that traffic has somewhere better to go.
Tulip bulbs and crocus corms aren't in the way by accident — they're genuine squirrel food, right alongside acorns. A stocked house nearby won't stop a determined squirrel, but it's a much easier meal than digging through your beds for one.
A handful of peanuts on the fence rail is grab-and-run. A house with a ladder to climb turns a quick snack into something worth watching from the kitchen window.
What Arrives at Your Door
Why This One Actually Gets Used
Every board is held over open flame the way Dewey's father taught him — no paint, no stain, no sealant. The char sheds rain instead of soaking it up, and the wood ages to a natural silver-brown instead of rotting from the outside in.
The archway sits back under the roof overhang instead of flush with the front wall, so rain and wind have to turn a corner to get in — the same idea as a covered porch, just scaled down. No door or hinge needed to keep the inside dry.
Small gaps between the floorboards let rainwater drain straight through instead of pooling. Standing water and trapped feed are the usual reason a wooden feeder "goes sour" after a few weeks — this one's built not to hold either.
Climbing in beats jumping in — it means the house can hang lower and closer, somewhere you can actually see from a window or the porch, instead of stuck high in the canopy like most store-bought boxes.
Open front, no lid or latch to rust shut outdoors. Reach in, wipe it out, refill it — under a minute, no tools, no fighting a stuck hinge in February.
Not so big it takes a peck of corn to look full, not so small that two squirrels can't share it — the size he landed on after forty years of watching what actually got used, not what looked impressive on a shelf.
“Most of what shows up on a backyard camera isn't a squirrel raiding a feeder out of spite — it's a squirrel taking the easiest food in the yard, which is usually whatever's already sitting out. Give it an easier, closer option of its own, stocked and visible, and a good amount of that traffic moves over on its own. It won't stop every visit — nothing reliably does — but most people notice the difference within a few weeks.”
Dr. Miriam Halbert, Wildlife Biologist
Appalachian Backyard Wildlife Project
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Quality You Can Check Yourself
- Solid pine, hand-torched — no paint, stain or laminate anywhere on it, inside or out.
- Open archway entrance — no hinge, lid or latch to rust or jam shut come winter.
- Vented floor — built to drain, not to pool water and go moldy underneath the feed.
- 30in rope ladder, wooden rungs — already hung and ready, nothing to assemble.
- Hand-built in small batches — every piece made by Dewey Caudill himself, Cosby, Tennessee.
A Full Season, No Deadline
Squirrels don't work on anybody's schedule but their own, so the guarantee isn't tied to a clock either. Hang it, fill it, and live with it through the season. If it's not right for your yard, send it back for a full refund — no explanation needed.
A note on handmade variation and wild visitors: Every house is cut and torched by hand from real pine, so grain, color and small marks vary from one piece to the next — that's the mark of it being handmade, not a flaw. Squirrels are wild: placement and a few weeks' patience make a real difference, but nobody can promise an exact move-in date, or that they'll give up the bird feeder and the garden entirely. Skip bread, and skip anything salted — squirrels can't process salt the way we can.
Product Details
| Material | Solid pine, hand-torched — no paint, stain or laminate |
| Set includes | 1 handmade treehouse: house + railed platform + rope ladder, mounting screws and a placement card |
| House size | 11.8 × 8.9 × 8.6 in (30 × 22.6 × 21.8 cm) |
| Ladder | 30in (76.2 cm) rope ladder, wooden rungs |
| Entrance | Open archway, recessed under the roof overhang — no lid or hinge |
| Floor | Vented solid pine, built to drain rather than pool water |
| Mounts to | Tree trunk, fence post or wall — screws included, about 10 minutes |
| Suits | Built for Eastern gray squirrels — chipmunks and other small backyard visitors take to it too |
| Best filled with | Unsalted peanuts, mixed nuts, sunflower seed or dried corn |
| Care | Wipe out by hand, let air dry. Bring the rope ladder in or under cover over winter to help it last |
| Made | Hand-built and torched by Dewey Caudill, Cosby, Tennessee |
| Shipping | Free U.S. shipping, ships in 3–5 business days |
The Final Sale
The Final Sale
Message from the Artist:
After years of making things by hand, our workshop is closing. These are the last pieces we'll ever ship. Every item on this page was made slowly, carefully, and with more love than any factory could replicate. Nothing rushed. Nothing outsourced. Just real craft from real hands.
We're proud of every single one. We hope they find good homes.
When they're gone, they're gone — and so are we.
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