Snyder Industries 260 Gallon Cubetainer Tank with Brass Dipense Fitting

The Snyder Industries 260 Gallon Cubetainer is a space-forward water storage tank built on a compact 36" x 36" square footprint — 9 square feet of floor — that stands 57.25" tall, so it holds a full 260 gallons in ground space most round tanks give to about half that. It ships in white High Density Linear Polyethylene (HDLPE), a linear resin that gives better wall stiffness per thickness than crosslink for a flat-walled square tank, and it arrives with an 8" lid, a single 1" outlet, and a factory-installed brass dispense fitting at the base for gravity draw-off. Empty it weighs 185 lb, which makes placement a two-person job rather than a forklift one.

Will it work for your site

Filled with water this Cubetainer carries about 2,168 lb, and its 1.9 specific gravity rating gives headroom to roughly 4,120 lb of rated contents. That SG number is not just water math: the same tank stores solutions up to about 1.9 times the weight of water, so it holds dense brines, fertilizer solutions, and many acid solutions up to 1.9 specific gravity without a wall upgrade. For standard 260 gallon water duty the tank body is nowhere near its limit. What matters most is what sits underneath it: a flat, fully supported, load-rated pad. The square base spreads weight over a smaller area than a wide vertical tank, so the ground bearing under those 36" sides needs to be solid and level. Run your volume against the Tank Sizing Calculator and the Tank Sizing Guide before you commit to a spot, and if this feeds a rural fire-protection or reserve setup, our guide on fire-water reservoir design and NFPA 22 sizing walks the reserve math.

Fittings and plumbing

Everything connects at the bottom through that one 1" outlet, so plan your line around a single connection. It takes a standard 1" NPT bulkhead or valve, and the brass dispense fitting comes factory-installed with its seal at the base for gravity draw-off. The 8" lid is your top fill and inspection point. If you extend the plumbing, keep a bulkhead gasket spare and add a 1" ball valve or camlock at the outlet. There is no second port, so a manifold has to branch off that lone connection.

Pad, placement, and handling

For a permanent above-ground install, size the concrete pad to the loaded weight, not the empty shell — the concrete pad sizing framework covers the ACI approach for a tank in this weight class. The one mistake to avoid: this tank gets placed empty and filled in place. At 185 lb dry two people can set it, but full it is a roughly 2,168 lb monolith with no lift points, so lock in the exact spot before the first gallon goes in. See the technical drawing on this page for the outlet height and lid position.

Freight

This Snyder Cubetainer ships LTL from the Snyder plant in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota. Because it's a rigid poly tank, freight is quoted live to your ZIP rather than folded into the list price. Get your number from the Freight Cost Estimator, or call us at 866-418-1777 and we'll price the lane and confirm the brass-fitted 260 gallon Cubetainer is the right fit for your job.