so cold here that the "gelling" in the pan was like fuel oil. with out heating to change pans. got that done. got some sap yesterday from 1 to 7 600 gallons or so. my dry line on main releaser froze again,i am going to change the 11/2 quik connect see if that is problem. took forever to thaw one line i knew froze found the leak. my east taps are running great. spent most of yesterday tapping spouts back in that the frost has pushed out. going to go over them all this week. found more than a few.my lower releaser is a double, i have had nothing but freeze problems with that. one side fills and freezes solid. i had to take it apart to get to the ice block yesterday. took 2 hours to get that system going.going to put a heat tape around that. that was too much work. drained my liquid ring, running 75 right now for short runs. was holding 22 inches on that little pump. so that system is tight.working on an antifreeze loop for that. going to use r/v antifreeze since it is 3 dollars a gallon.i figure 50 gallons should do the trick, going to stick a loop in the brook to cool it.have yet to get my main liquid ring running, may be this week. i have not finished tapping 100 to go some day. easter today not much time to do what i want to do.hate holidays!! in my spare time i am building a pan washer for my front pan. a 4x6 piece of plywood, and radiant flooring pipe looped to it. with holes drilled into the pipe to blast hot water from steamaway on to the pan to clean it. well back to the fun.