I bought my Ranger mainly for leave no trace camping and overlanding rallies etc. but after two days of looking at it, Saturday morning I couldn’t take it anymore and by 10am the kindling was started. I fortunate to have 2ac of hardwoods so supply wasn’t a problem. I didn’t use a handsaw to recut and split the oak on hand. The stove used very little wood. Produced no smoked except for a wet piece I put in but it quickly dried. And I ended up having a very relaxing Saturday afternoon and evening and some friends even joined me.  The real fun happened when we started to get hungry so got out the cast iron pot and tripod and in a couple of hours we all we eating navy bean soup from scratch on cold winters day. I also got the ring stand and the grass didn’t scorch at all and removing what little ashes there were was easy. Wish I could include some pictures.