I bought this for my husband and put it in our backyard for cool evenings. He is constantly cleaning up pine needles and picking up branches and pine cones to throw in there...any excuse to burn stuff!! The smoke goes everywhere, but we still love it. He had so many pine needles in there, flames were actually coming out of the top, so you have 
to be careful and make sure it’s out in the open!He was smoking out the entire neighborhood so bad, that our neighbor came over and said he
couldn’t enjoy his backyard because of it, lol. So, 
he’s calmed down a little and we plan on just burning wood and only a few pine needles from now on to decrease the amount of smoke. I’d say this was a great purchase. It’s heavy and quality is A. 

he’s chilled out on burnin