Thanks for all the input and it's nice to see photos of others so please share them if you have them.
BV I thought of springs also as I know I've seen some short spring sections with long ends that could be turned into hooks. I didn't try them however as I thought the coiled part would be bulkier and still might have some tip to stability due to the stretch of the spring. The solid wires make it rock solid. I'm very pleased with them.
What's a Nomad XT?
So I did a boil test tonight. First time using a twig stove so I didn't know what to expect. It took longer than I thought, but then again I 'was watching it'.
First another pic for scale instead of my big hand throwing it off.
I started the timer just before I dropped the match in the top.
I put one quart into my two quart kettle. Tap water. Next time I think I would wait just a bit longer to put the pot on so the fire is really settled.
At about 5 min in I decided to put up a wind screen as a front was moving through blowing the flame around.
At about 8 min there were the small bubbles on the bottom and it was plenty hot for tea or hot chocolate.
At about 17 min there was a rolling boil although it didn't photo well.
At this point I took the pot off to let the flame die out. I probably could have not put in the last pieces of wood.
At about 30 min from the start the fire is almost out.
Letting everything cool on there own it took 40 min till I could pick it up and handle everything to put it away. The last to cool were the legs. Version 2.0 will have the fire tube floor raised up off the legs. I've already started 2.0. One of them will end up with my daughter.
So how does this compare with your experiences?
Jim