Resolution (ePub)

Ev Stephenson studied mechanical engineering, business management, and industrial forestry at Auburn University, The University of Tennessee, West Virginia State College, and Virginia Tech... twice. The only explanation he gives is that he kept searching for somewhere that the faculty more or less agreed with his notions about these subjects.



After designing and building a hardwood sawmill in West Virginia between degrees, he began working as an equipment specialist in the forest products industry focusing on mechanization of timber harvesting, processing, and transportation. Much of the equipment in which he was involved in designing, developing, and testing is still operating across the country and the world today. Among these are light weight tractor-trailer rigs with on-board air or electronic scales for in-wood weighing of loads, and a proprietary rail car capable of transporting tree length or log length timber interchangeably. He developed novel load securement devices which allowed this rail car to be safely coupled to tank cars and other cars with restricted application. He also traveled to South Africa to assist in the introduction of a unique tricycle tractor, which became a success when adapted as a mechanized feller buncher saw or shear for timber harvesting. His cooperative work with an Oregon company led to successful in-woods chipping equipment for production of bark-free, clean pulp chips.



As that technical arena matured in the 1990's, he capitalized on his equipment development experience by moving into an emerging allied forest products field, adaptation of high technology to grow wood fiber faster, cheaper, and more useful for specialty products, ie. designer trees. Development of this technology was becoming critical to private and industrial landowners in the USA, in order to compete internationally with sources having lower cost land, labor, and infrastructure.



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