Tuesday remained cold and windy, but that was forecast. Since there was nothing pressing in the woods we went looking for a new collecting tank. Our metal 200 gallon collecting tank is at least 50 years old. Its hard to maintain. So we went to Fleet Farm to look for new tanks. We wanted a polyethylene (plastic) tank because its translucent (see through) so we can see how much sap is in the tank. With the metal tank we always had to guess. We looked at several styles but settled on 200 gallon tank. It has marks on the side indicating gallons so we can tell how much sap is collected. It also has bottom drain so we can completely empty it. We have to rig up the pipes yet for draining it. We had a false start on the piping because we didn’t measure the fitting sizes correctly.