Draw off container.

[Snowmad]

I draw off into a 10 gallon stainless steel milk can. Got lucky and found it for $60 at a flea market. I use my cone filter in it by using vise grips to clamp it to the top but need to get a filter press for next year because I'm drawing off a lot faster and it's hard to keep up with the filters. The can has a nice lid as well. Watch for an Amish farm auction, you might be able to get one there reasonable.

[DrTimPerkins]

Look for stainless cream cans / milk buckets at antique stores, Craigslist, ebay, etc. Many are 5 gallon and have cost me less than $50 ea.

Just make sure they are SS. Older milk cans can contain quite high quantities of lead and should be avoided.

[SeanD]

I've been taking near syrup out of the pan at 216-217 degrees and put into a food grade plastic jug. Its always in the back of my mind that someday the hot syrup will melt a hole in my 7 gallon jug, should I be worried? What does the small time guy use that's safe? Thanks

I just found this, maybe I'm safe.

:Melting Points of Plastics

Different types of plastic have different melting points because they are different chemical compounds. For example, PVC melts at approximately 175 degrees Celsius (347 degrees Fahrenheit). Different types of HDPE, recycle symbol "2," have a melting point range between 130 and 146 degrees Celsius (266 and 295 degrees Fahrenheit). Different types of polypropylene, recycle symbol "5," melt between 160 and 208 degrees Celsius (320 and 406 degrees Fahrenheit). If other compounds are included in the plastic, making it impure, the melting point will be reduced

Those temperatures are way beyond your syrup temps. By the time my syrup has gone through the filters and into a plastic bucket, the hottest I've ever had the syrup was 130 deg. Even if you went straight off a boiling rig, you are still well below melting point.

[Haynes Forest Products]

Now I use food grade buckets with snap down lids. I sell bulk to a guy that uses it to brew with and a word of caution. Yes I fill with my press right out of the boiling finisher and fill to the very top of the bucket. I leave room for the lid to snap in place and then I leave it in place until it cools. BECAUSE the top even though they have lids with the tamper prof ring in place they will blow the lid open spraying really hot sticky syrup all over you feet, floor and walls. When cool enough you can move them but its like shaking a soda can NOT GOOD. being in a hury can make a big mess when walking with a full bucket and the lid pops. DO NOT stack till cool that only compounds the effects....That's what I was told.