# Featured Project - David Baillie's Charcoal Tractor **URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/featured-project-david-baillies-charcoal-tractor/2098 **Category:** Projects **Tags:** featured **Created:** [November 17, 2015, 3:30am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/featured-project-david-baillies-charcoal-tractor/2098 "2015-11-17T03:30:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Chris](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/chris/32/56161_2.png) [@Chris](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/Chris) #### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 3:30am UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/featured-project-david-baillies-charcoal-tractor/2098/1 "2015-11-17T03:30:19Z")
Featured Project of the month for November 2015 is David Baillie’s Ferguson TE-20, powered by charcoal! [![](http://forum.driveonwood.com//dow.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/a/a7e305da52dcc11d085f4ccfbbf7c23dd20940de.jpg) ](http://forum.driveonwood.com//dow.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/a/a7e305da52dcc11d085f4ccfbbf7c23dd20940de.jpg) " It uses a natural gas tank (junk of course) with a gasketed top lid, exhaust cooling, air intake from the bottom. This one has a refractive lining in the bottom cast in two parts; the nozzle cast into a yogurt container with a 3/4 inch dowel for the hole then the tank lining poured around it to hold it in place… [![](http://forum.driveonwood.com//dow.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/3/3a8679a6f1041be51b106fe5a53d9f20fc51ebdf.jpg) ](http://forum.driveonwood.com//dow.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/2X/3/3a8679a6f1041be51b106fe5a53d9f20fc51ebdf.jpg) “Did a test run today with a friend’s bush hog cutting an overgrown pasture. All things considered it was a good test. The power is less then on gas for sure but it can still do the job easily. The cutters were dull, the grass was heavy and very dewey; about as heavy cutting as I’m likely to do. Consumption was about 7.5 gallons of softwood charcoal in a little over an hour for an equivalent of about a gallon of gas.” [View the full build thread here: [http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/my-charcoal-tractor/1200](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/my-charcoal-tractor/1200)] @dbaillie David, if you could update us on the status of your tractor, we’d love to get an update, or maybe some new pictures. Congratulations!