Snyder Industries 275 Gallon Plastic Stackable IBC Tote Tank Payloader System with EPDM Gaskets

One plant in Nebraska, and a tote that rides a standard pallet lane

The freight is the argument for a tote, and this is what it looks like. Snyder molds this one at Lincoln, Nebraska, and it moves as ordinary LTL freight at NMFC 156600-03 on a 48 inch by 40 inch base that is the size a pallet jack, a dock plate and a truck tail lift were all designed around. Nothing about that delivery is special: no permit, no crane, no wide load, no route survey, and no pad poured in advance. The truck backs to a dock or drops it on a forklift, and 228 pounds of empty tote goes wherever a forklift goes, which is the whole point of buying a container instead of a tank. The freight cost estimator prices the lane from Nebraska to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. What that footprint buys you after delivery is choice. The same 48 by 40 inches that suits a truck suits a warehouse aisle, a bunded steel pallet, a mezzanine, a lab dock or a spot beside a batch tank, and because the tote stacks, the second one goes on top of the first instead of alongside it, which matters when the floor is the scarce thing rather than the ceiling. Stacking is also the part that deserves discipline: stack on a flat floor, stack square, stack loaded units only as the site's own rules allow, and never stack against a rack upright and call it support. At 53 inches tall a full unit puts 2294 pounds of water, or up to 4358 pounds of contents at the rated specific gravity of 1.9, onto whatever is beneath it, so the floor, the pallet and the unit under it are all part of the calculation. Moving them is where the injuries hide: forks all the way through, straight lift, no pushing a loaded tote across a floor with a pallet jack cocked sideways. Before you commit to the tote tier at all, do the arithmetic honestly, because a container that gets handled thirty times a year is a different cost from a tank that gets filled four times. Run the volume and turnover in the tank sizing calculator, size the reserve with the tank sizing guide, and read the drum versus tote versus bulk tank break-even analysis before you sign for a fleet of them.

Five ways Snyder holds a tote-sized load

Four of these hold 275 gallons and none of them are the same unit. This one is the lowest and lightest of them, 53 inches tall and 228 pounds empty on a rectangular 48 by 40 inch base, which is the buy when the tote has to go under something, be lifted often, or sit on a standard pallet position without overhang. The 45 by 45 inch SII-6620030B97202 is square at 56 inches and 269.5 pounds, and the two 46 by 46 inch units stand 62 inches, the SII-6040001B97204 at 354.2 pounds and the SII-6040011B97216 at 319 pounds; square bases turn in an aisle without caring which way they came in, and the extra height buys gravity drain over a vessel that a 53 inch unit will not clear. The last two on the sheet are not polyethylene at all and are worth knowing about for that reason: 6984000B32217 is a 245 gallon Supertainer in carbon steel and 6984000B51303 is a 300 gallon Supertainer in 304 stainless steel, both wider than tall and both heavier empty, which is what a steel container costs you on every lift. The EPDM gaskets named on this sheet are the reason to prefer this Payloader unit over its plastic siblings when the liquid is the deciding factor; the sheet names the gasket material and nothing further about it, so tell us the chemistry at order and we will confirm the seal set against it rather than guess from the name.

Need a different size? Every tank in the table is in stock programs; ask for a quote on the one that fits, or call 866-418-1777.

A 6 inch threaded lid to fill it, a 2 inch ball valve to empty it

• Fill opening: a 6 inch threaded lid on top, the only opening the sheet gives for filling by hand or by hose. Six inches is a working opening rather than a manway: a fill hose, a level probe, a light to look in, not a person. Keep the thread clean, because grit on a 6 inch thread is what turns a sealed tote into a weeping one.
• Inlet: a 2 inch bung, as listed. That is where a pumped or piped fill lands so the lid stays closed and the fill is not free-falling onto the liquid.
• Outlet: a 2 inch ball valve, as listed. It comes on the unit, which means the first thing that matters is that it stays shut in transit and stays supported in service; never hang a hose reel, a meter or a length of hard pipe off the valve body.
• Gaskets: EPDM, as the sheet names them. It gives no size, count or rating, so none is asserted here.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C, as given. No warranty term is published on this sheet.

Empty a tote the way it was built to be emptied: valve to a short flexible hose, hose to a pump or a dispense point, and the last connection carried on something other than the valve. Crack the lid, or better, leave the vent path the site has set up open, because a 2 inch valve on a sealed 275 gallon container will pull the walls in as it drains and then stop draining. Check the valve, the bung and the lid gasket every time the unit is refilled, which on a tote is often, and take the unit out of service when a seal is suspect rather than chasing the drip with a wrench. If the liquid is regulated, the container is only half the system: the pallet under it, the containment around it and the inspection cadence are the other half, which the RCRA 40 CFR 264.193 secondary containment article sets out, and the Captor 110 percent containment comparison puts a contained vessel beside a tote on a bund so the trade is visible.

Acids, mixed loads and the tote versus tank decision

A 275 gallon tote is bought for a liquid you use in batches: a plant chemical drawn down over a month, a dosing supply beside a treatment skid, a mix or blend held between steps, wash chemistry at a packing line, a lab or pilot plant feed, or a load that has to travel between two sites on a fleet truck. The chemistry decides everything else, and on this size of container it decides it faster than on a bulk tank because the unit gets opened, moved and refilled constantly. The Captor comparison above is one half of that reading; the other half is the tier question itself, which the container versus tank guide asks in the right order: how much, how often, how hazardous, and how much floor. Where the answer is a tote rather than a tank, tell us the liquid at order and the fitting and gasket set gets matched to it. The sheet rates the wall at a specific gravity of 1.9, so a dense solution has room in it, and it gives 4358 pounds of contents against 2294 pounds of water in the same 275 gallons; on a stacked unit both of those numbers are what the unit underneath is carrying.

Chemical service ratings

The resin is rated for the liquids below at the concentrations shown; the fitting and gasket called out are the ones to order with the tank. Verify the exact service on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic acid
• Aluminum sulfate
• Calcium chloride
• DEF (diesel exhaust fluid)
• Ethylene glycol
• Ferric chloride
• Ferric sulfate
• Ferrous sulfate
• Hydrochloric acid
• Hydrofluoric acid
• Hydrofluosilicic acid
• Hydrogen peroxide
• Magnesium chloride
• Peracetic acid
• Phosphoric acid
• Polyaluminum chloride
• Potassium carbonate
• Potassium hydroxide
• Propylene glycol
• Sodium bisulfate
• Sodium bisulfite
• Sodium carbonate
• Sodium hypochlorite
• Sodium thiosulfate
• Sulfuric acid
• Urea solution
• Zinc orthophosphate

Lincoln, Nebraska, LTL, 228 pounds on the forks

It ships from Lincoln, Nebraska, shipping at 48 inches by 40 inches by 53 inches, 228 pounds, freight class LTL with NMFC 156600-03. That is a dock delivery in the ordinary sense of the phrase, which is exactly why it costs what it costs compared with a bulk tank: no permit, no crane, no escort, no pad. Confirm who unloads before the truck is booked, because an empty tote is a forklift job and a residential or field delivery without a machine is a refused delivery in both directions. Inspect it on the ground before it goes anywhere: the lid thread, the bung, the ball valve and the base, then close the valve and leave it closed. Water test it before the chemical if the unit is going into a regulated service, and log the date it entered service on the unit itself, because a tote that gets moved and refilled is a tote whose history nobody can reconstruct later. Totes come back, so keep the shipping dimensions on file; the return trip is priced the same way the delivery was. Keep the first delivery's paperwork with the tank; strength and date on day one is the baseline for every batch after.