The cockfight, as Micael Stohm has chosen to call it, has actually been underway for several years.
But it is only recently that attention around the tail-shaped project just south of Ulricehamn has picked up.
The island has recently been featured by SVT, SR and Ulricehamns Tidning, among others, and has received tens of thousands of views on various social media.
I think the guys at work threw out pictures of this poor island when some from SVT were there, says Micael Stohm, who works as a salvager in his day job.
Then it turned out as it turned out. Shitty. It turned out shitty.
Wedding by the pond
Micael Stohm can't help but laugh when he talks about the dam construction in 2019, where he and a friend suddenly agreed to add a penis-shaped island in the middle of the dam.
In previous interviews, he has described the design stage as “a couple of cases of beer, two chairs and an excavator.”
It's a big pond, but I had lost my spark a little because I was just digging and digging and it didn't even look like I had been there, he says.
But then a friend started helping and at least some earth started to be moved. And then I thought, "We must have an island."
Said and done.
The island is between 18 and 11 meters wide, depending on where you measure. The length is just over 28 meters.
The shape is best seen from above. But there is also a small viewpoint by the dam, with a good view of Kukön.
We actually had our wedding up there on the hill, says Micael Stohm with another big laugh.
My wife has a lot of crazy ideas of her own too, so she's just working on it.
New projects?
He is careful to point out that he has applied for and received all the necessary permits for his dam construction. But regardless, all reactions so far have been positive.
Yes, people are tanning themselves to death and we've had some people running here too to see it.
It's fun to share a little. But then I also think it's fascinating to have stuff that no one else has.
Following the success, there are also new – still secret – plans for other projects.
Yes, I have to break myself now somehow, before someone else does. I just have to manage to get hold of an excavator again.
