Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon Heavy Duty Cone Bottom Tank

Twelve feet on a trailer, and why this one travels easy

Of everything in this family, this is the one that arrives without drama, and that is worth money on the day. It is moulded at Lincoln, Nebraska, with Nebraska given as the origin state, so the plains and the Midwest are the short lane and the coasts are the long one. The sheet gives the freight class as 400, a numeric class rather than a mode, and publishes no NMFC number. The shipping size is 90 inches by 90 inches by 144 inches at 670 pounds: twelve feet exactly, and the lightest tank in this group by a wide margin. A twelve foot load routes into yards that a sixteen or twenty foot load cannot enter, turns in spaces that stop the taller shells, and comes upright with far less machine at the end. If your site has a tight approach, a low gate or no crane of its own, that difference is not a detail, it is the reason to buy this row rather than a taller one. It is still an oversize object rather than a pallet, and the sheet publishes no crane, no rigging, no permit and no escort detail, so none is stated here; agree the offload and the window with us before the truck leaves. Price the lane to your own ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. What still has to be waiting for it is the structure. A cone bottom tank has no flat bottom and cannot stand on its own, and this sheet publishes no stand, no legs, no skirt, no ring and no bolt pattern, so no stand height, no rated load and no stand material appears on this page. Settle it before the tank ships with the cone bottom tank stand compatibility matrix and ask us to confirm the fit against this part number. Then build the foundation to the loads: 670 pounds of empty tank, 25,020 pounds of water and 47,538 pounds at the rating, arriving at stand feet inside a 90 inch circle. Size the volume before the structure with the tank sizing calculator and take the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

The 3000 shell, a 2600 below it and a wider 3600

Four rows are the same 90 by 144 inch shell at 3,000 gallons, listed at 670 pounds on the two heavy duty listings and 500 pounds on the other two. The sheet draws no other distinction between them and neither does this page. The rating is what this listing is for: 1.9, with 47,538 pounds of max contents, which is the specification for a product denser than water. If yours is not, the lighter listings are the better purchase and we would rather say so. The fifth row is the small step down. 5100000N40 holds 2,600 gallons at 139 inches and 500 pounds, only five inches shorter, so it saves you almost nothing in height and costs four hundred gallons; take it only when the smaller volume is what you actually want. The last row is the interesting one. 8050000N40 holds 3,600 gallons, six hundred more than this tank, on a 102 inch circle at 125 inches tall and 1,090 pounds, so it is shorter and wider and holds more. If you have the floor and not the ceiling, that is a genuinely better answer than this tank; if the ground is what you are short of, it is not. Two guides go further into the choices at this capacity than any specification can: the buyer's guide written around the shallow cone version of this size and the companion guide covering the natural white steeper cone version.

Need two of them? Request a written quote for the pair with freight to your ZIP, or call 866-418-1777 and we will price the truck once.

The manway, the fill route and the lugs the sheet lists

• The opening: an 18 inch threaded vented manway on top, the only opening this sheet publishes, and the point at which everything enters the tank. At 144 inches plus the stand it is above head height, but it is the most reachable top on any tank in this family, which makes routine inspection realistic rather than theoretical.
• The fill route: bring the line to a coupling at working level and run a fixed line to the manway. Even on the shortest shell here, filling by hose from a ladder is the arrangement that causes spills, and a fixed line also lets you control the fill rate.
• The vent: it arrives with the manway on this sheet. Air has to enter as fast as liquid leaves, and a wall that cannot take air in takes the load instead, so size the path to the faster of the fill and draw rates, inspect it when the tank is open, and never blank it.
• The outlet field: it reads 1 Manway / Lid, an opening rather than a discharge, printed exactly as the sheet gives it. No outlet size, thread, bulkhead or valve is published or claimed here. Tell us the line size, the valve and the product and we will confirm what this part number carries.
• Handling points and the cone: 4 tiedown lugs, 8 lifting lugs, ladder lugs and 2 flange lines are listed. The cone is published at 30 degrees, the middle of the common angles, which drains a free-flowing liquid cleanly and holds material that packs; anything below it is carried on steelwork off the stand with a flexible connector at the first joint.
• Not on the sheet: no inlet, no warranty term, no NMFC number. Ratings are a specific gravity of 1.9, 25,020 pounds of water at 3,000 gallons, 47,538 pounds of max contents and a service limit of 100 F / 37 C.

Where the tank stands over ground, a floor or a drain that would have to be recovered after a release, the containment design is a separate question from the tank and deserves its own answer: the Captor containment comparison sets the contained polyethylene route against the alternatives on the points that decide it. And whatever the liquid is, check it in the chemical compatibility reference before a gasket, a valve or a fitting is chosen, because that answer comes from the product rather than from the vessel.

Bulk chemical feed at a plant with limited headroom

Three thousand gallons at a 1.9 rating is a feed tank rather than a bulk depot, and it goes where a dense product has to be held close to the process that uses it. Concentrated mineral and salt solutions feeding a dosing skid, heavy fertiliser blends at an agricultural retailer, spent liquor and pickling solution in a metals plant, thickened sludge at a small treatment works, and batch make-up in manufacturing where the vessel changes product regularly and cannot leave a heel behind. Twelve feet of shell is what makes this the version that fits inside a building rather than beside one, and 670 pounds empty is what makes it the version a modest site can install without hiring the heavy machine. The cone is what makes it worth having at all: the tank drains toward one low point, so a changeover is a rinse rather than a shovel job, and at three thousand gallons that difference shows up every single time the product changes.

What this tank is listed to hold

Each line is a liquid the resin is rated for, at the concentration shown, with the fitting and gasket to order. Follow the link for the full rating, or search the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Sulfuric Acid
• Hydrochloric Acid
• Sodium Hypochlorite
• Ferric Chloride and
• DEF.

Six hundred and seventy pounds, class 400, Lincoln

Book this one on the class and the shipment, because the sheet gives class 400 and no NMFC number: 90 inches by 90 inches by 144 inches at 670 pounds, out of Lincoln, Nebraska. Twelve feet lying on a deck is the easiest movement in this family, but easy is not the same as casual. Have the stand set, levelled and anchored before the trailer arrives. Use the 8 lifting lugs the sheet lists rather than improvising a sling point, never take the load on the manway, and use the 4 tiedown lugs to keep it restrained, because at 670 pounds this shell is light enough for wind to move it the moment it is upright and nobody is holding it. Then prove the installation with clean water before any product: hold the 25,020 pound load, read the manway seal, the cone joint, the stand feet and the pad edge in daylight, and leave it standing full overnight. Come back the next morning and read the same four things again before you connect anything. The habit that pays on a tank this size is the boring one: a short written record of what was checked, when, and by whom, kept at the tank rather than in a filing cabinet, so the next inspection has something to compare against instead of starting from scratch. Photograph the outlet fitting from below before the pipe goes on; a slow weep is easier to compare against than to describe.