The Snyder Industries 2000 Gallon Plastic Horizontal Leg Tank is a 1.9 specific gravity polyethylene vessel built for hauling dense liquids on a nurse trailer or applicator skid, with integral securing hoops that locate the tank and take your tie-down straps. At 70 inches tall, 62 inches wide, and 160 inches long, it lays out a 62.0 x 160.0-inch footprint, so confirm your trailer deck length and rail spacing before you order. Empty it nestles low; filled with water it carries 16,680 lb, but at its 1.9 SG rating the contents alone can reach 31,692 lb — and that heavier number is what dense fertilizers and chemicals will actually load onto your axles. Match both figures against your axle ratings and the math in our Tank Sizing Calculator and Tank Sizing Guide so the loaded rig stays legal and stable.
Will this Snyder horizontal leg tank work for your load?
This is a white horizontal leg tank — buyers searching "horizontal leg tank," "Snyder," or simply "2000" gallon land here for the same reason: they need a heavy-haul body, not a stationary cylinder. The 1.9 SG rating is the number that matters. It tells you the wall thickness is rated for liquids up to 1.9 times the density of water, which covers most agricultural fertilizers and many concentrated chemicals that would over-stress a 1.0 or 1.5 SG tank. Read SG as a weight rating only — it does not by itself qualify the tank for a given chemical (resin chemistry does that, covered below). The technical drawing on this page calls out the leg geometry and hoop locations; size your saddle supports and trailer bunks to match those bearing points rather than improvising. For fertilizer fleets, our guides on applicator and leg tanks for fertilizer and blend-tank stratification explain how to load, mix, and verify before the spreader runs off-spec.
Chemical compatibility
This tank is rated at 1.9 specific gravity, and our data lists the resin as high-density linear polyethylene but marks it unconfirmed. Treat the resin as a gating step before any chemical service: call 866-418-1777 and confirm HDLPE versus crosslinked (XLPE) for your liquid first, because resin chemistry — not the SG rating — governs long-term compatibility. The callouts below come from the OEM chemical-resistance chart and are concentration- and temperature-specific; verify them against your exact service conditions and our chemical compatibility resource before ordering wetted hardware.
Most listed chemicals run the default PVC fittings with EPDM gaskets: aluminum sulfate (50%), calcium chloride (40%), ethylene glycol (100%), ferric chloride (50%), ferric sulfate (60%), ferrous sulfate (20%), magnesium chloride (30%), polyaluminum chloride, potassium carbonate (50%), potassium hydroxide (saturated), sodium carbonate (30%), sodium thiosulfate (40%), and ozonated water (up to 10 PPM). A few run polypropylene or mixed plastic fittings with EPDM: acetic acid (60%, PP/PVC), urea solution (50%, PP/PVC), sodium bisulfate (PVC/PP), sodium bisulfite (PVC/PP), propylene glycol (PP/316SS), and zinc orthophosphate (PP/316SS).
The exceptions are where mistakes happen, so order hardware to match the row, not the shelf. DEF (32.5% urea solution) requires 316SS fittings with EPDM — ordinary metals corrode and contaminate the fluid, and note that DEF is a different row than the urea solution above even though they are chemically related. The strong acids and oxidizers demand Viton gaskets: hydrochloric acid (37%, PVC), hydrofluoric acid (48%, PP/PVC), hydrofluosilicic acid (26%, PP/PVC), hydrogen peroxide (50%, PVC), phosphoric acid (85%, PVC), sodium hypochlorite (under 16.5%, PVC), and sulfuric acid (98%), which specifically calls CPVC fittings rather than PVC. Peracetic acid (30%) is the most demanding of all — 316SS fittings with an Aflas gasket. If you are running any of the acid or hypochlorite services above, single-wall plastic plus secondary containment is the real-world compliant setup; our Snyder Captor double-wall and SPCC 40 CFR 112 walkthrough covers how containment fits with a leg tank like this one.
Freight and ordering
This tank ships LTL on a freight carrier from the Snyder plant in Lincoln, NE, and at 160 inches long it is a true heavy-haul body — figure 16,680 lb loaded with water and up to 31,692 lb of contents at the 1.9 SG rating when you plan the move. Freight is quoted live to your ZIP, never bundled into the list price. Get a real number from our Freight Cost Estimator before you buy, or call 866-418-1777 and we will quote the load and confirm the resin grade and fitting package for your application. Listed before freight.
