Trying to brighten up a local kindergarten, this is Ravenwood’s take on a totem pole. 🐻 🦊 🦅 we hope the kids enjoy it. - - #totempole #bear #fox #eagle #chainsawcarving #woodwork #kindergarten #animalcarving #woodsculpture #swedishanimals

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Bye bye 2022. Hello 2023. Highlights from the past year. Part two.

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Looking back on a great year. Here’s some of the highlights. Part one.

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It’s a mad rush here at Ravenwood to get all our jobs finished before the Christmas holidays and the end of the year. This monstrous snail and giant daisy represent the last of the carving jobs. With only a few days left we’ve still got loads to do. We’ll try and post some pics of…

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Bugs! These little fellas will soon be installed on a mulmholk in a park in town. Weather permitting. Hopefully they will shed some light on the purpose of these strange log structures that keep popping up all over the place..? - - #bugs #woodsculpture #chainsawcarving #mulmholk #natureconservation

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Menagerie. Here’s a sneaky peek at our latest project. It may look like a tangle of animal body parts right now but stay tuned to see the end result when we install it later in the month. (Weather permitting) - - #menagerie #animals #chainsawcarving #oakcarving

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Due to the winter wonderland this week, we haven’t managed to build much apart from a boring green fence which isn’t worth sharing. So we thought we’d show a blast from the past. This weeping elm set lives in @jacksonstradvard HQ. It’s been knocking around for a few years now but we’ve never posted any…

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Stockholm has had about 60cm of snow (two feet in old money) over the last two and a half days! We got to the tip this morning to find our lovely new roof in danger of collapsing under the weight of snow. But like all Ravenwood builds, it stood up to the challenge. It took…

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Picnic table with a view. We’ve been traveling to and from Norrtälje all this week to a largely forgotten, overlooked and bizarre silver spruce forest which has recently been thinned. So using the planks we cut from the felled trees we’ve built a hexagonal table and bench an the edge of the forest, on a…

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Here at Ravenwood we only manage to recycle about 1% of all the material that comes through our wood yard. The other 99% goes through “The Chipper!” and is then sent to the power station. We try and time the chipping process to fall in between nesting and hibernation seasons as the giant pile of…

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Helping house Stockholm’s insects. Our giant oak mulmholks and hollow oak log insect hotels continue to be very popular with our customers and the local insect population. Danny and Patrick were out in the woods setting these up on the only sunny day this week. - - #mulmholk #insecthotel #woodland #nature #helpingnature #homefornature #lovenature #lovebugs…

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Winter is late this year here in Stockholm, but you know it’s on it’s way when the waxwings arrive. Definitely one of our favorite winter birds. Keep an eye out for them feeding on berries in the rowans and hawthorns. - - #winterscoming #waxwing #winterbirds

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