Enough now! All set to go shopping after school and here comes the snow again. I hate driving in this weather but needs must, being away from home for over a week, the cupboards and freezer are about bare

Don't have any here, haven't had any for 2 days, and not looking likely.
However my sister who lives in Nth Wales has enough for both of us! She definately cannot get out.

A lot of ours melted with the mild temperature yesterday. It has snowed a bit today but sometimes it has fell as rain. I went to Nagykanizsa yesterday and the roads were fine apart from all the new potholes.

Roads are clear in town but some snow lay on the village roads, quite a heavy snowfall here today.

My wife and I haven't heard much from the parents-in-law and sister-in-law's family for about a week. They must be snowed in although it didin't sound like it last Sunday when we chatted to Hungarian deaf friends via Skype. But the sister-in-law's family do live up a hill. I guess the brother-in-law is busy with his Suzuki Grand Vitara 4x4 pulling everyone up the hill.

Would love to be snowed in on the top of the hill with a good supply of logs & a freezer full of food - a telly, a book & some bottles of booze - what a wonderful rest that would be!

Just the logs would do me at the moment! All my wood needs cutting to length, I have a chainsaw and 2 electric saws but all are blunt so make loads if smoke when I try to cut anything. I have an electric sharpener for the chainsaw blade but I can't figure out what angle to set on it.

Good luck the the chainsaw. Sounds cold & dangerous!

I have been using a chain saw for nearly 30 years and I tried an electric sharpener once - and gave it back from whence I borrowed it! I use a round file of the right diameter for the chain with a guide attached to the file to keep the file at the correct depth. It takes less than 5 mins. to sharpen the chain, the trick is not to let the chain get too blunt. By the time its smoking you are damaging both the chain and the bar.
The angle for sharpening with a file is 30 - 35 deg. (depends on the chain) from the perpendicular and 10 deg. down from the horizontal. There are scribe lines for the 30/35 deg. angle on the guide. A sharp file is needed and I buy a new one with each new chain.

I have done the chain now and it's much better. Someone gave me a link to a PDF file for the Oregon chain that I'm using and I also found the instructions for the chainsaw in Hungarian are much more detailed than the English ones. I'm wondering if there is somewhere I can take the big bench saw blade to get it sharpened. I looked at large circular saw blades in OBI and they cost about half what I paid for the whole machine on the Nagykanizsa Sunday market!

There's a little shop in town, on the street that runs alongside the main square - sure he does them. Will get the address if you want?

What's wrong with an axe?

I was going to say my father-in-law uses an axe but then remembered that's only for the wood for the BBQ in summer!

We use an axe

When your tuzifa arrives in 2m lengths you don't even consider an axe...unless you have waaaay too much time and don't mind a lot of waste. A chainsaw is definitely needed to get the logs down to size THEN you can use your axe.


BTW, how much do you all pay for firewood?
We get it for about 16,000 huf, cut into 30-35cm pieces and delivered (for a forest cubic metre) which I think is ok.