# New build new to DOW lets talk **URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/new-build-new-to-dow-lets-talk/8183 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [March 17, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/new-build-new-to-dow-lets-talk/8183 "2025-03-17T14:02:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/r_wesseling/32/30940_2.png) [@r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/r_wesseling) #### Post date: [March 17, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/new-build-new-to-dow-lets-talk/8183/4 "2025-03-17T17:37:19Z")
Hello Phil, I remember reading something by a missionary in the Outback. He said redgum wood was the best. There were a lot of gassifiers (gas producers) in Australia during WW2. I have the impression that most of them used charcoal. Charcoal is usually considered to be a simpler and easier way to get started. [https://www.build-a-gasifier.com/powell-gas-producer/](https://www.build-a-gasifier.com/powell-gas-producer/) Tone Šuštarič has a gassifier for his tractor that seems to be very effective. See _Tractor with gas?_ thread. > [@Tractor with gas?](https://forum.driveonwood.com/t/tractor-with-gas/6182/585): > > Hey Folks, This grate nozzle thingy, Tone has come up with, is a really big deal. I didn’t know how it worked, really, just by looking at his sketch, but then as I added it to my own drawing I realized what is going on. When his char bed is good and gas can flow through it easily, the nozzle he has put in the grate flows very little air. Just because of Bernoulli effect the air rushing past its underside might even create a slight vacuum. But when the char bed becomes tight, and gas doesn’t fl… Rindert --- _[View the full topic](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/new-build-new-to-dow-lets-talk/8183)._