Snyder Industries 2500 Gallon 30 Degree Plastic Cone Bottom Tank in White

Chowchilla and the oversize lane out of California

This tank is moulded at Chowchilla, California, and the sheet lists California as the state it ships from. That single fact shapes the purchase more than anything else on the page. The freight class reads OVS, an oversize mode rather than a numeric class, and the sheet gives no NMFC number at all, so the movement is booked rather than ordered: a route, a delivery window, an unloading plan and the right machine standing on your site when the trailer arrives. For a buyer in California, the Pacific Northwest or the Southwest that is a short oversize lane and a genuinely attractive proposition. For a buyer on the Atlantic coast it is a long one, and it is worth knowing that before the tank is specified rather than after. Price yours honestly with the freight cost estimator at the beginning of the conversation; the listed price is before freight. The other half of the decision is the structure, because a cone bottom tank does not stand on its own bottom. The whole reason to buy a cone is that the contents leave from the lowest point under their own weight instead of being pumped off a flat floor, and the cost of that is that the vessel has to be carried in a stand. This sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt and no bolt pattern, so the support is a separate item, specified before the order rather than sourced after the delivery. Size the ground for what arrives through it: 470 pounds of tank, 20,850 pounds of water at 8.34 pounds per gallon, and 31,275 pounds at the rating on this sheet, all concentrated into the stand's feet rather than spread across a base. That is an engineered foundation, not a slab poured to match an outline. Indoors, the numbers that decide feasibility are 95 inches across and 125 inches tall plus whatever the stand adds underneath, and the tank has to be stood upright once, so check the ceiling, the door and the lift before anything else. Confirm the batch volume in the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide before the stand height is settled.

Five cones at ninety inches and the ninety-five inch odd one out

Four listings hold 2,500 gallons and only one of them is 95 inches across. This tank carries its volume in a wider, and therefore shorter-looking, shell than the three 90 inch listings that share the same 125 inch height, and it is also the heaviest of the four at 470 pounds against 375, 375 and 400. The sheet states those figures and explains nothing about them, so neither do we. What you can act on is the plan dimension. Five extra inches of diameter is five extra inches of stand, of doorway, of aisle and of clearance at every point on the route in, and on an installation that is already tight the 90 inch listings are the ones to ask about. Where the room is not tight, the difference is nothing and the choice comes back to the rating and the part number. The last two rows are the real size decision. 5070000N40 holds 2,000 gallons at 102 inches tall on the 90 inch plan at 325 pounds, which is more than two feet shorter than this tank; 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches on the same plan at 500 pounds, which is more than a foot taller. On a cone, height is the expensive dimension, because the stand adds to it and the roof does not move. Measure the vertical space you actually have, subtract the stand, subtract the clearance you need above the manway, and buy the listing that fits what is left. Two guides work through this family in detail from both angles: the 2500 gallon 15 degree cone bottom buyer's guide and the 2500 gallon 30 degree cone bottom with poly stand guide.

Want the certified one or the plain one? Call 866-418-1777 and say what the inspector asks for; or request a quote on the row you need.

Filling through an eighteen inch threaded vented manway

• The fill: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top of a 125 inch tank standing in a stand. That opening is the fill point, the inspection point and the only opening this sheet publishes, and at that height it is reached from a platform or a fixed ladder designed alongside the stand rather than added afterwards.
• The vent: the manway is listed as vented, and that vent path is what protects the wall while a pump draws the cone down. Keep it clear, inspect it on a schedule, and never blank it off to control an odour.
• The discharge: no outlet size and no bulkhead is published on this sheet. The cone ends in a discharge and the sheet does not dimension it, so we print no number for it. Tell us the line size, the valve and the product, and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• Supporting what hangs below: the valve, any reducer and the first length of line are carried on their own steelwork off the stand, not off the cone. A hanging valve on a full tank is a load with nowhere to go.
• Angle and flow: the name gives 30 degrees and the sheet gives no cone angle field. A shallower cone drains a free-flowing liquid cleanly and holds onto anything that packs, which is worth deciding before the order rather than after the first changeover.
• Limits: the service limit is 120 F / 48 C and the wall is rated at a specific gravity of 1.5. No warranty term is on this sheet and none is claimed here. The stand is a separate item; no leg, skirt or bolt pattern is published.

Name the product and its density when you order. On a cone tank the fitting material, the gasket and the valve all follow the chemistry, and at this volume the cost of getting that generic is never the fitting itself.

Batching where the bottom has to clear itself

Two and a half thousand gallons over a cone is a process vessel rather than a store, and the buyers are the operations where the bottom of the tank is where the work happens: mixing and batching in a chemical or coatings plant, thickening and sludge holding at a treatment works, fermentation and settling in food and beverage production, mineral and slurry handling at a wash plant, liquid fertiliser and crop input blending at an agricultural retailer, and any line that has to be emptied completely between products. A flat-bottomed tank of this size leaves a layer behind at every changeover, and that layer is not a nuisance at 2,500 gallons, it is a rinse volume, a disposal ticket and a contamination question. The cone answers all three by putting the lowest point of the vessel over the line. Two things follow from that and both are worth planning. The first is that the tank has to be high enough for whatever receives the discharge. The second is that a tall column stratifies more readily than a shallow one, so if your product separates, the draw-off point and the mixing arrangement will matter more than the shell does.

Listed chemical service for this shell

The maker's list for this resin: each liquid, the concentration it is rated to, and the fitting and gasket that go on the order. Verify your own service on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• details ); Aluminum Sulfate 50% (PVC, EPDM
• details ); Calcium Chloride 40% (PVC, EPDM
• details ); DEF 32.5% (316SS fittings, EPDM
• details ); Ferrous Sulfate 20% (PVC, EPDM
• details ); Magnesium Chloride 30% (PVC, EPDM
• details ); Sodium Carbonate 30% (PVC, EPDM
• details ); Urea Solution 50% (PP/PVC, EPDM
• details ); and Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM (PVC, EPDM).One exception to watch: if you are running DEF, it is compatible at 1.5 SG but requires 316

Oversize from California at 470 pounds

Chowchilla, California, is the moulding plant and California is the state the sheet lists it as shipping from. The freight class reads OVS, an oversize mode and not a numeric class, the sheet publishes no NMFC number, and the shipping size matches the tank at 95 inches across and 125 inches tall at 470 pounds. Get the lane priced to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. The weight here is easy and the dimensions are not: a shell of this diameter and height is what makes the move oversize, and an oversize move is agreed in advance with a route, a window and an unloading plan rather than left to the driver. Have the machine with the reach to lift it clear of the deck standing on site, and have the stand built and the foundation cured so the tank goes straight into its structure. Set it, seat it, restrain it, then fill it with clean water and hold the full 20,850 pound load while somebody reads the manway seal, the discharge joint, the stand feet and the foundation in that order. Walk the base again the next morning and after the first hard rain, because a foundation under a cone stand shows what it is doing at the edges before it shows it anywhere else. Keep one spare gasket for the outlet fitting on the shelf; it is the part that fails on a holiday.