Snyder Industries 2600 Gallon Plastic Horizontal Leg Tank in White

Where a 155 inch body lands: a skid, a slab, or a purpose-built deck

Buy this one for what it does to a floor plan. One hundred and fifty-five inches is nearly thirteen feet of length and 82 inches is close to seven feet of width, and at 70 inches tall the whole vessel stays under the height of most single-storey eaves, under a shade structure, under the lower branches of an orchard row, and inside the sightline limits some counties impose. That is the argument for a horizontal at this volume: 2600 gallons that never stands taller than a man. Where it goes is a short list and all of it is flat and long. A poured slab in a yard, sized and cured before the tank arrives. A fabricated steel skid that gets set down by machine and left. A purpose-built trailer or truck deck, engineered for the load rather than adapted to it. A concrete apron beside a mix station where a pump and a hose reel live beside the tank rather than on it. In all of those the surface does the work, so the surface is what to inspect. Legs are bearing feet, not stilts: they carry through the whole flat foot onto whatever they are resting on, so a broken deck board, a raised lip, a rut or a hollow in a slab becomes the new bearing point for 21,684 pounds of water, or up to 41,200 pounds of contents at the rating. Level, continuous and full contact, across the whole 155 inches, with the overflow drained away from the edge of the slab rather than into it. Then plan for the liquid moving, because this is where horizontals at volume punish people: 2600 gallons in a body nearly thirteen feet long has an enormous run, and the surge under braking is worst at part-full, going into the tie-downs and the deck rather than into the wall. Restrain it fore and aft as well as across, through the legs, through anchor points rated for the load. How leg and applicator tanks are classified when they travel, and what an agricultural exemption does and does not cover, is set out in the applicator and leg tank classification guide, and it is worth reading before the tank is mounted rather than after. Check the volume against the real duty in the tank sizing calculator, with the reserve and the freeboard a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

The 2600 against the 2000 and the 3000 on this sheet

The interesting comparison on this sheet is not the volume, it is the rectangle. This tank spends its capacity on length: 155 inches long by 82 inches wide at 70 inches tall. The 3000 gallon SII-7500000C37 above it holds four hundred gallons more in a body 142 inches long, wider at 92 inches and taller at 76, and it is listed at 1,010 pounds against this tank's 1,014, so the sheet gives the larger tank as the marginally lighter one and offers no explanation; we print what it says. That makes the choice between them a clearance question rather than a capacity question. If the space is long and the ceiling or the cover is low, this is the tank that fits and the 3000 is the one that does not. If the space is short and wide and the height is free, the reverse is true. The 2000 gallon SII-1002300C37 is the step down and the lowest of the three at 55 inches, listed at 700 pounds, and it carries securing hoops in its name where this tank does not. Beside this page there is also a second part number on the identical shell, the SII-8470000N45 at the same 155 by 82 by 70 inches and the same 1,014 pounds; the sheet lists both and prints no difference between them beyond the number, so neither do we, and either way you are buying the same rectangle. Pick the floor first, the clearance second, and the gallons third.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

The outlet as the sheet lists it, and the valve that has to carry it

• The outlet, printed as given: the sheet gives the outlet as 3 and prints no unit for it. So this page prints the figure and stops there. It is not a pipe size and we will not present it as one. Tell us what you are connecting and we will confirm the port, the thread and the fitting against Snyder's current documentation before anybody buys pipe or a valve.
• The valve is the part to specify properly: whatever the port turns out to be, the shut-off at a tank holding 21,684 pounds of water is the component that gets operated most and inspected least. Put it as close to the tank as the fitting allows, carry it on its own support off the slab or the deck rather than off the tank wall, and give it a straight, clear approach so nobody has to lever it.
• The first joint is flexible, always. A rigid line bolted from a tank fitting to a pump bracket puts thermal movement, pump starts and, on a mobile mount, every brake load into the fitting. A flexible connector between the valve and the first hard pipe is the cheapest part of the installation and the one that saves the fitting.
• Where the outlet sits: on a leg tank the outlet is at the low end of the body above the legs, so a level surface drains the tank to the fitting and a surface tilted toward the outlet drains it further. Across 155 inches of floor, an inch of slope is worth a lot of residue, so shim the far end of a skid or grade the slab.
• No inlet on this sheet, so none is claimed here: filling is through the 24 inch lid, with a fill line taken down inside the body rather than free-falling onto the surface. Keep the lid closed and the vent path clear, because a tank drawn on hard through a blocked vent will pull its own wall inwards.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C, as the sheet gives it, applying to the liquid and to the tank standing in the sun.

Name the liquid at order and we will match the fitting, the gasket and the valve material to it rather than guessing at the counter. Where the liquid is a blended fertilizer solution, the thing that bites is not the tank but the blend: a horizontal body is wide and shallow, which is exactly the geometry that lets layers form and a spreader run off spec before anybody notices, and the physics plus the field checks that catch it are worked through in the fertilizer blend stratification guide. Where it freezes, protect the valve, the outlet and the first run of pipe and leave the body to ice from the top down; a plastic valve full of ice is scrap and a tank with a crust on the surface is still a tank.

Fertilizer solution, fluid feed and bulk transfer at yard scale

At 2600 gallons a horizontal leg tank has stopped being a nurse tank and become site storage. The duties: a fertilizer or crop-input dealer holding a solution and loading applicators off it; a farm at scale holding starter or side-dress solution for a season rather than a day; a mix station where bulk arrives by tanker and leaves by pump into smaller rigs; fluid feed storage at a livestock operation; brine storage for a contractor or municipal de-icing program; wash and process water at a plant where the building height is the limit and a vertical of this volume will not fit; construction and dust-control water on a long job. What all of them share is that the tank is filled by somebody else's truck and emptied by your pump, so the pad, the valve and the approach matter far more than the wall does. Two limits worth stating plainly. This is a single-wall tank with no secondary containment, so it is not the product where site rules require containment. And the sheet's 120 F / 48 C service limit is a real number in July on an unshaded slab, so a tank that sits loaded in full sun should be shaded, filled cool, or drawn down before the afternoon. Beyond that, what ends a tank this size early is almost never the liquid: it is a slab that was not flat, a strap over the body instead of an anchor through the legs, or rigid pipe bolted straight to the outlet.

Chemicals this resin is rated for, with the fitting and gasket to order

These are the chemicals listed for this tank at the concentrations shown. Each links to the full compatibility page; confirm your exact concentration and temperature there or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid (60%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Aluminum Sulfate (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Calcium Chloride (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• DEF (32.5%) - 316SS fittings, EPDM gasket
• Ethylene Glycol (100%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Ferric Chloride (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Ferric Sulfate (60%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Ferrous Sulfate (20%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Hydrochloric Acid (37%) - PVC fittings, Viton gasket
• Hydrofluoric Acid (48%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gasket
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid (26%) - PP/PVC fittings, Viton gasket
• Hydrogen Peroxide (50%) - PVC fittings, Viton gasket
• Magnesium Chloride (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Peracetic Acid (30%) - 316SS fittings, Aflas gasket
• Phosphoric Acid (85%) - PVC fittings, Viton gasket
• Polyaluminum Chloride - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Potassium Carbonate (50%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Potassium Hydroxide (saturated) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Propylene Glycol - PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gasket
• Sodium Bisulfate - PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gasket
• Sodium Bisulfite - PVC/PP fittings, EPDM gasket
• Sodium Carbonate (30%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Sodium Hypochlorite (
• Sodium Thiosulfate (40%) - PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Sulfuric Acid (98%) - CPVC fittings, Viton gasket
• Urea Solution (50%) - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gasket
• Zinc Orthophosphate - PP/316SS fittings, EPDM gasket

Chowchilla, Lincoln or Marked Tree, moving as an oversize load

This tank is molded at Chowchilla, California, Lincoln, Nebraska and Marked Tree, Arkansas, so most of the country has a short lane to one of them, and on a load this shape the lane is a larger number than anything else. The sheet gives the freight class as OVS, and at 155 inches by 82 inches by 70 inches it moves as an oversize load rather than as ordinary freight. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Walk the route before the truck is booked: the gate, the turn, the overhead lines and somewhere for a long trailer to stop. A load this size does not reverse out of a bad approach and a refused delivery is charged both ways. Unload with a forklift or telehandler and slings under the body, never a hook through the lid, and set it straight onto the finished slab rather than parking it on the dirt beside it, because 1,014 pounds of empty tank is easy to move today and impossible to move with water in it. Then accept it properly: fill with clean water, hold it, and read the legs, the slab edge and the outlet through the hold. Chalk the full-water line on the outside of the shell after that first fill, because it is the level every later reading gets checked against. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.