Snyder Industries 120 Gallon HDPE Stackable IBC Tote Tank

Lincoln to your dock at 187 pounds

The plant is Lincoln, Nebraska, and the sheet gives Nebraska as the shipping state, which on a 187 pound tote is a better piece of news than it looks. Freight is given as LTL, a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-04, and the shipping size is listed at 46 inches long by 45 inches wide by 34 inches high, which is the tank's own dimensions. That combination is why a tote of this shape is cheap to move: it is a single pallet position, under three feet tall, square enough to block properly against other freight, and light enough that it does not drive the weight break on the bill. If you are ordering two or three at once, ask us to look at how they pallet together before you assume the second one costs what the first did. At the receiving end the same numbers do the work. One hundred and eighty-seven pounds empty is a pallet jack or two people, and 34 inches of height clears every dock door, roller shutter and mezzanine underside you are likely to meet, which is exactly why plants buy a low tote: it goes where a taller one will not, and a person of ordinary height looks down into the lid rather than up at it. Set it on a flat, continuous, level surface that carries the whole 46 by 45 inch base: a rack beam pair sized for the plan, a solid deck, a slab. Not two pallets pushed together, not a pallet with a broken board. Full of water the sheet gives 1,001 pounds and at the rating it gives 1,902 pounds, and neither of those forgives a surface that only touches three corners. The name says stackable and the sheet publishes no stacking load at all, so this page gives you none: if totes go on top of totes at your site, get the condition confirmed in writing for this exact part number first. There is no cage, no integral pallet and no fork pocket on this sheet either, so handle it from underneath on something that spreads the base. Before you settle on 120 gallons, run your turnover through the tank sizing calculator, take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide, and read the container versus tank guide, which is the honest comparison of when a tote beats a drum and when it loses to a fixed tank.

Two plastic 120s and three stainless supertainers

Row two is the tote most people will be choosing between and the difference is real rather than cosmetic. SII-6660015B97204 holds the same 120 gallons on a 45 inch square plan at 36 inches tall and 212.3 pounds, where this one is 46 by 45 inches, 34 inches tall and 187 pounds. So this tote is lower and lighter; that one is squarer and taller. The part that decides it for most buyers is not the shape at all, it is the inlet: this tote's inlet is a 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting, which is a connection to thread a fill line into, while the other is listed as a 2 inch bung. If your fill is a closed, plumbed, repeatable transfer, the bulkhead fitting on this tote is the reason to buy it. The bottom three rows are not polyethylene at all. 6984000B51305, 6984000B51320 and 6984000B51306 are 304 stainless steel supertainers, the first two identical at 120 gallons, 42 by 48 by 23.25 inches and 315 pounds, the third at 165 gallons and 26.25 inches tall and 326 pounds. They are listed here because they land in the same volume band, and they sit far lower and far heavier than the plastic totes because steel is a different proposition: nothing on this page applies a specific gravity, a resin or a polyethylene statement to any of the three. If steel is what your product needs, ask us about those on their own sheets.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

The 6 inch vented lid first, then the two 2 inch connections

• The lid: a 6 inch threaded vented lid, sitting at 34 inches, which is below waist height on most people. Six inches takes a hose, a wand and a dip tube; it does not take a hand and a forearm, so the wash-out plan is decided by the lance you own rather than by reaching inside. Decide that before you decide what goes in.
• The vent in the lid: listed as vented, and that vent path is what keeps the wall out of trouble whenever the ball valve is open and product is running out. Keep it clear, and check it every time the lid comes off for anything else.
• The inlet: a 2 inch polypropylene female NPT bulkhead fitting, the clearest distinguishing feature on this sheet. It is a threaded connection for a closed fill, which keeps the lid shut during filling, keeps the operator off the top of the tote and keeps whatever is in the air out of the product.
• The outlet: a 2 inch ball valve, as the sheet gives it. Put a flexible connector immediately after it and support the hose, the meter or the reel on their own bracket. A tote is a container, not a pipe support, and the fitting boss is where that lesson gets paid for.
• Gravity draw: with the outlet at the base of a 34 inch body there is very little head to work with, so filling a drum by gravity wants either a stand under the tote or a pump below the valve. Plan that height once, in metal, rather than on blocks.
• Limits: 120 F / 48 C, and a specific gravity rating of 1.9. No warranty term and no stacking load appears on this sheet, so this page states neither.

Name the liquid when you order, so the valve seat, the gasket and the bulkhead seal are matched to it instead of left generic. Where the product is one that has to be contained, the tote is only half the answer: the secondary containment guide for hazardous waste tank systems covers the containment, the leak detection options and the inspection cadence that go under and around it, and the contained polyethylene versus steel comparison sets a contained vessel against the steel alternative.

Buying 120 gallons at a time instead of two drums

One hundred and twenty gallons is a deliberately small bulk tier and the people who buy it have a reason to keep it small: a laboratory or pilot plant, a small finishing or plating line, a car wash with a slow-moving speciality product, a food plant with a short-dated additive, a municipal site dosing something it barely uses, a distributor breaking bulk down into drums and jugs, a workshop that got tired of stacking drums against a wall. The argument in every one of those is turnover rather than price per gallon. Product that sits in a tote past its useful life is more expensive than product bought in smaller lots, and buying too large a container is the most common way a good chemical becomes a disposal problem. That calculation, done properly, is what the drum versus tote versus bulk tank break-even analysis works through: annual volume, turnover frequency, hazard class and the floor the whole arrangement occupies once containment and access are counted.

Compatibility list

Liquids the maker rates this resin for, with concentration limits and the wetted fitting and gasket to specify. Confirm your own concentration and temperature on the chemical page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Sulfuric Acid 98% - CPVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrochloric Acid 37% - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrofluoric Acid 48% - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Phosphoric Acid 85% - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Hydrogen Peroxide 50% - PVC fittings, Viton gaskets
• Sodium Hypochlorite
• Peracetic Acid 30% - 316SS fittings, Aflas gaskets
• Ferric Chloride 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Potassium Hydroxide (saturated) - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution 50% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ethylene Glycol 100% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Acetic Acid 60% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride 40% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Polyaluminum Chloride - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets

Shipped 46 by 45 by 34, 187 pounds empty

This tote is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, and the sheet lists Nebraska as the shipping state. The freight class is given as LTL, a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-04, and the shipping size matches the tank at 46 inches long by 45 inches wide by 34 inches high. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. At 187 pounds it comes off with a pallet jack or two people, taken from under the base and never by the lid, the valve or the bulkhead fitting. Put it in its final rack or floor position before anything is plumbed to it, then fill it with clean water on the level and hold that 1,001 pound load long enough to read the bulkhead seal, the ball valve and the lid. Drain it through the valve rather than the lid, so you find out at the water stage whether your hose arrangement actually empties the tote at a usable rate. Break the first joint after the valve flexible on day one and you will not meet that failure later. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.