Ms... :
Thank you for doing the research.
The object has been to get to the woods carrying minimum equipment/materials, build & use the stove, then break it down, leaving the materials to biodegrade with the first rain back into the ground. Simple. Elegant.Earth-friendly. Nothing to carry in....nor to carry out. And to create a practical stove capable of cooking food for many at a large gathering.

The diagram at the wikia page comes close to what I have in mind. It shows the L-form Winarski design, with the typical elbow, the fuelwood feeder shelf with air intake beneath, and the combustion taking place at the corner of the elbow just at the point where it meets the chimney. These are the features that will work. And this design can be made entirely of cob (or adobe). No metal to lug around. Some of the other design variations cited, with oblique feed tube and without undershelf air passage, may be harder to do out of earth materials.
One question was about making the shelf. One page mentions use of ceramic tile for the shelf. Good, but still stuff to carry around. The chimp webpage shows use of a simple wire grate as a shelf. I believe this would work only a solid shelf would work better in bringing additional dedicated air current. But if we did want to go this route then all we'd need carry in would be some steel rod bits that could be arranged as a shelf, albeit an open one.
I think I could make the shelf out of rock slab if available, or else very carefully mold some air tubes of clay to go under the fuel feed portion. The vertical chimney can be done in cob; the horizontal fuel feed chamber, roughly in the form of a vaulted arch, is another matter. If made of cob, the roof of it would slump in before drying solid... so that part can be made from on- site-made adobe brick.
So I'm looking for detail of the air intake below the fuel feed, and secondly, I'm looking for detail of the chimney top - so as to be strong enough to support a water-filled cooking vessel , and this would have to be made so as to allow smoke to vent up from around the kettle.

Maybe one just has to get out there and start playing with mud... and the solution will become apparent.

Has anyone else seen any quick-n-dirty jungle-build rocket stoves, or maybe has ideas about how-to adapt the metal designs into earth?

b!