75 Gallon Vertical Liquid Storage Tank - Natural White (23" x 49")

A long lane list and a heavy crate for a light tank

Two facts about getting this tank to you shape the whole purchase. The first is the plant list, which is the longest in this batch: St. Bonifacius, Minnesota; Lancaster, Ohio; Griffin, Georgia; Shawnee, Oklahoma; Tooele, Utah; and Owego, New York. Six plants is a short lane for most of the country, and the ship-from states the record gives run wider again, including California, Texas and Washington where no plant on that list sits; both lists are printed as the sheet carries them. The second is the crate. The tank is 28 lb, but the ship weight on this record is 74 lb, which is a real difference to plan around: the carry is one person, the receiving is a dock or a liftgate, and the freight is priced off the larger figure. Say which you have when you order and it is cheaper than sorting it out with a driver at the kerb. What arrives is the tallest 23 inch shell most sites will want: 75 gallons at 49 inches, which is chest height, on a footprint no wider than the 65 gallon tank below it. That is the reason to buy this one rather than the 65: ten more gallons for six more inches of height and no more floor at all, with the same 1-1/4 inch base fitting and the same 8 inch vented lid over it. Under the tank, treat the base as the installation. The maximum contents figure is 938 lb standing on a 23 inch circle, a rotationally molded floor bears on everything it touches and nothing else, and a tall shell out of plumb loads one edge of its own floor, so the surface must be flat, continuous, drained and set level with an instrument. Then band it to a wall, a rack or a frame before the first fill; at 28 lb empty this shell moves when a hose is pulled and the weight arrives long after the strap should have. Run 75 gallons against your real draw and refill interval in the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

Five relatives on one sheet, four of them seventy-fives

Four seventy-fives on one list is unusual and worth reading carefully. The 43785 is this shell in black at the same 49 inches and 28 lb, for a site where sunlight falls on the tank and nobody reads the level through the wall. The 42438 is an inch taller at 50 inches and the sheet lists it at 40 lb, a heavier tank for the same gallons. The N-41456 is also 50 inches and carries a different plant and a different freight class on its own sheet; we print each record on its own page and reconcile nothing, so read both if the lane matters. Either side of the seventy-fives, the 45265 holds 65 gallons at 43 inches and 26 lb on the same base, and the 44328 holds 100 gallons at 43 inches on a wider 28 inch footprint at 34 lb, which is the tank to take when floor is cheaper than headroom. This one is the shortest of the seventy-fives on the narrow base, and its own record gives two empty weights, 28 lb and 29 lb, against a 74 lb ship weight; all three are printed and none is smoothed over. If your duty is outgrowing this size, the buyers guides to the natural white two hundred and fifty gallon vertical and the natural white three hundred gallon vertical are the next two steps.

Other makers in the running? 866-418-1777 will compare them honestly; Norwesco, Snyder, Chem-Tainer, Enduraplas and Bushman are all here, or price freight on this one.

The eight inch vented opening is the fill point

• The 8 inch threaded vented lid is where this tank is filled, inspected and cleaned, and at 49 inches it is at chest height, which is the best working height in this family: high enough to drain into something, low enough to look into without a step. Put a light through it and read the band of wall above the liquid line every time it is open.
• The vent in that lid is the only air path the shell has, and with a 1-1/4 inch port underneath the tank can be drawn down faster than a blocked vent will let air back in. A wall pulled inward is permanent damage. Check it whenever the lid is off; replace a damaged vent before the next draw rather than after it.
• The sheet names no inlet, so the fill goes in through that opening. Bring a fill line to a coupling at working height and run it down inside the shell rather than letting liquid free-fall onto the surface, which keeps whatever has settled on the floor where it belongs rather than in the first draw.
• The base fitting is a 1-1/4 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead. On 75 gallons that is a sensible transfer size rather than a trickle port, so plan the pump and the pipe run around the fitting and expect the tank to empty at a working rate. Put a union close to the tank so valve changes never load the bulkhead.
• Forty-nine inches of shell puts real head over that outlet. Mount the pump below the base with a short falling suction run and a cleanable strainer and it stays flooded through the draw; set it level with the outlet and it will lose prime at the end of every cycle.

The service limit is 120 F / 48 C and the warranty field reads "3-year limited (full replacement) per Norwesco liquid storage catalog 2024"; ask us for Norwesco's current terms in writing rather than taking a summary from a product page. A tall shell on a narrow base wants its pipework carried independently: flexible first joint off the bulkhead, first valve on its own support off the floor, nothing rigid tying the wall of the tank to a fixed line. In a freezing space, protect the valve and the exposed run and let the body ice from the surface down. Keep a spare gasket for the bulkhead beside the maintenance log, because that is the part that fails on a holiday.

Nursery feed, wash bays and a spare batch vessel

Seventy-five gallons on a narrow base with a real draw-off is the size that does a shift's work and gets refilled: a nursery or greenhouse feed tank at the end of a row, feeding a drip or a boom; a wash bay supply for equipment rinse; a batch or dilution vessel in a plating, finishing or food line that gets drained and cleaned between products; a chemical feed tank at a well house, lift station or packaged treatment skid, topped up from a tote; a spare vessel kept beside a process so a changeover does not stop the line; a mix tank on a skid or a flat deck. The buyers guide to the natural white five hundred gallon vertical and the buyers guide to the natural white two thousand gallon vertical show what the same shape looks like when the duty stops being a day tank and starts being storage. The sheet gives a specific gravity rating of 1.5, a maximum of 12.52 pounds per gallon and a maximum contents figure of 938 lb; nothing further is claimed here about what belongs in it.

Twenty-eight pounds of tank, seventy-four pounds of freight

The gap between the tank and the crate is the thing to plan around on this record: 28 lb empty against a 74 lb ship weight, with the crate at 23 inches by 23 inches by 49 inches. Both figures are printed here as the sheet gives them, and the larger one is what the carrier will price and what somebody has to get off the truck. Both the freight class field and the ship mode field read LTL. With six plants on the sheet the lane is usually short, and on an item this size the lane is most of what you pay, so run it before you choose between the seventy-fives: the freight cost estimator prices it to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Take it off the truck with two hands on the body, stand it on its own base rather than leaning it, and look at the bottom edge before you sign. Then fill it with clean water where it will live, hold it a day, and read the base and the bulkhead before a single pipe is made up. Put the part number and the two empty weights on the maintenance log the day it lands; with four seventy-fives in this family, the record is the only way anybody will know later which one is standing in that bay. Put the tank's part number on the maintenance log the day it lands; five years on, nobody remembers which shell it is.