Snyder Industries 200 Gallon Plastic Portable Pest Control Operator Tank

The tall one in a family that fights over inches

Four tanks on this sheet hold 200 gallons and they are separated by almost nothing, so start with the family and find the one inch that matters to you. SII-1660000N43 is 49 by 37 by 39 inches at 70 pounds. SII-1660000C137 is 49 by 39 by 39 inches at 76 pounds. SII-32149 is 48 by 36.5 by 38.25 inches at 82 pounds. This tank is 48 by 37 by 40 inches at 82 pounds, which makes it the tallest and, with one other, the joint heaviest. Height is the reason to choose it and it is also the reason to reject it, depending on which way your problem runs. Buying the tall one buys back deck length: at 48 inches this tank is an inch shorter front to back than the two 49 inch bodies, and on a short bed or between a headboard and a tailgate an inch of length is worth more than an inch of headroom. It also puts the 10 inch opening forty inches off the deck, which on most trucks is a comfortable fill height from the ground with a hose rather than a climb. What the extra height costs is sight lines and clearance. Forty inches on a bed is above the level of most side rails, so a canopy, a low rack, a garage door at the yard or a drive-through wash all become measurements rather than assumptions. Take the tape before you order, and take it to the vehicle rather than to the catalogue. Then check that 200 gallons is the right tier at all: run the route volume, the number of stops and the refill distance through the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard and surge allowance from the tank sizing guide. A rectangular tank that is half full shifts its load at every stop sign, and the mounting and the straps are what carry that, not the tank.

Same volume, four footprints, and where this one sits

Set the four 200 gallon rows side by side and the pattern is plain: the two 48 inch bodies trade length for something else, and this one trades it for height while SII-32149 trades it for a narrower, lower profile at the same 82 pounds. The two 49 inch bodies are both 39 inches tall and both lighter, at 70 and 76 pounds. Nothing in that table is better than the rest in the abstract, and the tank that fits your deck is the right tank. The bottom two rows are the real alternatives when the footprint fight cannot be won. SII-1570000N43 puts 150 gallons into 48 by 36 by 29 inches at 65 pounds, which is eleven inches lower than this tank and the answer when the load has to sit under a rail, a rack or a rear window. SII-1720000C137 puts 325 gallons into 69 by 38 by 37 inches at 163 pounds, three inches lower than this tank but twenty-one inches longer and double the empty weight, which only makes sense on a long deck and a long route. That part carries the words no hoops in its own name on the sheet, which is what the name says and all this page will say about it; nothing is implied about this tank either way.

Which wall for your chemical? Call 866-418-1777 with the name and the concentration, or send a quote request and we will pick the row.

Breathing at the top of a forty inch body

• The air path: the 10 inch lid and manway is the only opening on the sheet, so it is the fill point and the breathing point both. A pump drawing hard on a sealed tank pulls the wall in, and a tank being filled fast with no air path out pushes back at the lid. Keep the path clear, look at it every time the lid is off, and never tape or seal over it to stop a drip.
• Fill height: forty inches puts that opening higher off the deck than any other tank in the family, which is the good news with a hose and the bad news with a bucket. Fill with the hose end below the rim, not falling in from above, and never leave it unattended: the fill point is also the overflow point.
• Outlet and suction: none is published. No outlet, no inlet and no bulkhead appears on this sheet, so no size is stated. Specify the suction, the valve and the pump with the order or with the body builder, and set the pump below the tank's low point with a short falling run into it.
• Mounting and restraint: the sheet gives no tie-down points, no strap rating and no mounting detail, so none is claimed. Continuous support under the full 48 by 37 inch base, straps over the body at both ends, and nothing driven through the wall is good practice and not a published rating.
• Ratings: the wall is rated at a specific gravity of 1.5, and the sheet gives 1,668 pounds of water and 2,502 pounds of max contents. There is no maximum operating temperature and no warranty term on this sheet.

Tell us the liquid when you order and the fittings, gaskets and bolting get matched to it rather than left generic. This is a sprayer and applicator tank and we name no product for it: what goes into it is the operator's decision, made against that product's own label and the licence it is applied under. One tank, one product, labelled on the outside in words anyone can read from the far side of the yard.

Grounds crews, greenhouses and the refill stop

This size and shape goes onto pest control and lawn care service trucks, onto turf and grounds maintenance rigs at golf courses, parks, schools and campuses, onto nursery and greenhouse trailers, onto vegetation management vehicles working fence lines and rights of way, and onto farm and ranch utility beds where it doubles as a rinse and mixing water supply. The buying decision is almost never about the liquid; it is about how many stops a tank covers and how far the crew has to drive to fill it again. Two hundred gallons is the size that covers a working day for most single-vehicle crews, which is why four different bodies exist at that volume. Where the tank comes off the truck and sits on a pad at the yard between routes, the pad is worth a thought rather than a guess, because 1,668 pounds of water on a 48 by 37 inch base is a genuine point load on old concrete: the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out how that gets sized honestly.

Merced, Lincoln or Philippi, and a 48 inch shipment

This part is molded at Merced, California, Lincoln, Nebraska and Philippi, West Virginia, so there are three lanes to quote rather than one and, for most of the country, a shorter haul than a single-plant product would give you. The sheet gives the freight class as LTL, a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-03, and it shipments at 48 inches long by 37 inches wide by 40 inches high, which is a pallet on a tail lift rather than a parcel. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Eighty-two pounds is a two-person lift taken under the body, never by the lid. Put it on the deck or the skid it will live on, strap it, and only then plumb it, because a tank moved after the plumbing is made up is a tank with a cracked fitting. Water-fill it once on level ground, walk around it with the load on, read the lid and the base and the straps, then drain it before the working liquid goes in. Photograph the strapping arrangement on the day it is right; that photograph is what the next person who refits it will need. Walk the base after the first hard rain; a pad that shifts shows it at the edge first.