Snyder Industries 200 Gallon Plastic Portable Pest Control Operator Tank

Five ways to buy 200 gallons, and why this one

This sheet is unusual: it lists four different tanks that all hold 200 gallons, and the differences between them are footprint and weight rather than volume. SII-1660000N43 is 49 by 37 by 39 inches at 70 pounds. SII-32149 is 48 by 36.5 by 38.25 inches at 82 pounds. SII-PCO200 is 48 by 37 by 40 inches at 82 pounds. This one is 49 by 39 by 39 inches at 76 pounds. Put them in a row and the decision is a tape measure decision: you are choosing between two inches of width, an inch of height and twelve pounds of tank, and on a truck bed with a toolbox on one side and a reel on the other, two inches is the whole question. This tank is the widest of the four at 39 inches and sits in the middle on weight, which makes it the one to take when the bed is open across its full width and you would rather have the extra beam under the load than the extra inch of clearance. Where the bed is pinched, one of the 48 inch bodies is the better fit and we would rather you bought that one. The other axis is volume: SII-1570000N43 holds 150 gallons in 48 by 36 by 29 inches at 65 pounds, which is ten inches lower and the answer when the tank has to clear a window, a rail or a rack, and SII-1720000C137 holds 325 gallons in 69 by 38 by 37 inches at 163 pounds, which is twenty inches longer and more than twice the empty weight for a route that should not need a refill. Run your route volume and refill interval through the tank sizing calculator before you settle on 200, and take the freeboard and surge allowance from the tank sizing guide; a partly filled rectangular tank moves its load every time the truck stops, and the mounting is what pays for that.

The 150, the four 200s and the 325

Read this table with the bed dimensions in your hand, because the volume column tells you almost nothing. Between the four 200 gallon tanks the total spread is one inch of length, two and a half inches of width, one and three-quarter inches of height and twelve pounds, and any one of them may be the only one that fits a given truck. The 150 gallon tank is the outlier worth knowing about: at 29 inches tall it is ten inches lower than this one, which is the difference between seeing over the tank in the mirror and not. The 325 is the other outlier: 69 inches long and 163 pounds empty, more than double this tank's weight, and it only makes sense where the deck is long and the route is long with it. Note also that the 325 gallon part carries the words "no hoops" in its own name on the sheet; this tank's sheet says nothing at all about hoops, so we make no claim either way about what this one has. If that detail matters to your mounting, ask us and we will confirm it against the part before it ships rather than guess from the family.

Pad already poured? Send its size to 866-418-1777 or in a quote request and we will match a row to it, freight to your ZIP included.

Breathing through a 10 inch lid

• The lid and the air path: 10 inches is the only opening the sheet publishes, and on a portable tank it is doing two jobs. It is the fill point, and it is where the air comes in while a pump draws the tank down. A lid screwed down tight with no vent path on a tank being pumped hard is how a wall gets pulled in on a service truck, and it happens fastest on a hot afternoon at the end of a route. Keep the vent path in the lid clear, check it whenever the tank is opened, and close the lid before the truck moves.
• Fill discipline: fill through the 10 inch opening with the hose end below the rim rather than falling in from above, and never leave a hose in the opening unattended. On a portable tank the fill point is also the overflow point.
• Outlet and plumbing: the sheet publishes no outlet, no inlet and no bulkhead. No size is claimed on this page. The suction, the valve and the pump are specified with the order or by the body builder who mounts it, and the pump belongs below the tank's low point with a short falling run into it.
• Mounting: no tie-down points, no rating and no mounting detail appear on this sheet. A rectangular portable tank wants continuous support under its full base on a flat deck or a skid, straps over the body at both ends, and nothing driven through the tank; that is good practice, not a published rating, and we are not going to print one that does not exist.
• Ratings: the wall is rated at a specific gravity of 1.5, the sheet gives 1,668 pounds of water and 2,502 pounds of max contents, and the service limit is 120 F / 48 C.

Tell us the liquid when you order and the fittings, gaskets and bolting are matched to it rather than left generic. We describe this as a sprayer and applicator tank and we name no product for it: what goes in the tank is the operator's decision, made against that product's own label and the licence it is applied under, and the label is the document that governs, not a web page.

Service trucks, spray rigs and rinse water

Two hundred gallons in a 49 by 39 inch footprint is a service-route size. It rides on pest control and lawn care trucks, on turf and grounds maintenance rigs at golf courses, parks and campuses, on nursery and greenhouse trailers, on right-of-way and fence line vehicles, and on farm utility beds as a rinse and water supply. The same body does duty as a clean water tank for equipment washdown and for mixing, which is the use that most often decides between 150, 200 and 325 gallons: how many stops before a refill, and how far the refill is. That is arithmetic rather than preference, and the calculator linked above does it in a minute. Whatever the tank carries, dedicate it: one tank, one product, labelled, and rinsed on a schedule the operator can state from memory.

Chowchilla, Lincoln or Philippi, 76 pounds on a pallet

This part is molded at Chowchilla, California, Lincoln, Nebraska and Philippi, West Virginia. Three plants means three lanes to quote and, for most of the country, a shorter haul than a single-plant tank; it is worth asking which one your order will ship from before you compare rates. The sheet gives the freight class as LTL, a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-02, and it shipments at 49 by 39 by 39 inches, so it moves on a pallet rather than as a parcel. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Seventy-six pounds is a two-person lift, taken under the body and never by the lid. Set it on the deck or skid it will live on before anything is plumbed, then fill it with clean water on level ground, watch the base, the lid and the mounting through a full load, and drain it before the working liquid goes in. Write the date of that first water fill on the tank with a paint marker, because on a service vehicle nobody remembers how old the tank is until it matters. Tape a copy of the spec sheet inside the control panel door; the next person to touch the tank will not have the box it came in.