We have lots of clean, dry, insect free wood, often kiln dried scraps we load up the truck with and a SS washing machine tub with a SS fine mesh screen for the top. Gives a very good fire, very little smoke, radiates lots of heat from the drum uses less wood than a open fire. Last time we were out they had just lifted the fire ban and allowed only "small fires". We had a decent but not big fire going in the washing machine drum, and when the FS came walking through the campground over came a ranger. He said from a distance our fire looked to big, but after he looked at our setup, his comment was, don't worry you probably have the safest and most smoke free fire going in the campground, wish we had something like that for the firepits for the whole campground.