The Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon Plastic Horizontal Leg Tank is a polyethylene haul tank built for moving liquid down the road and across the yard, carried on integral legs and fitted with securing hoops so it can be strapped to a trailer or skid for transport. It holds 3,000 gallons in a white, polyethylene body measuring 76 inches high, 92 inches wide and 142 inches long, giving a 92.0 x 142.0 inch footprint that determines how it sits on your trailer deck or pad. Snyder rates this tank to a 1.9 specific gravity, which is what lets it carry dense agricultural and water-treatment liquids rather than just water. If you have been searching for a horizontal leg tank in the 3000 range from Snyder, this is the horizontal tank that fits that brief.
Will it work for your load?
Start with weight, because a leg tank in motion is a weight problem first. Filled with water this tank carries roughly 25,020 pounds of contents, and at its full 1.9 specific gravity rating it carries up to about 47,538 pounds of contents. That figure is liquid only, before tank dead weight and hardware. The tank's own empty weight is not listed in our specs, so confirm it with us and add it on top of the contents weight when you rate your trailer, hoops, and tie-down straps. Even your densest listed service, 98% sulfuric acid at roughly 1.84 specific gravity, sits inside the 1.9 rating with margin, while water-density services use barely half the structural headroom. Run the figures through our Tank Sizing Calculator, and if you are weighing this size against your actual draw and refill cadence, the Tank Sizing Guide walks through the trade-offs. The securing hoops give you defined strap points for tie-down; for the regulatory side of hauling fertilizer and farm liquids on a non-roadable trailer, see our guide on applicator and leg tanks for fertilizer and the 49 CFR 173.5 agricultural exemption breakdown for farm fleet classification.
Chemical compatibility
This tank is polyethylene with a 1.9 specific gravity rating, which puts a wide band of treatment and agricultural chemistries within reach. The tank resin reads as HDLPE but is unconfirmed, so verify HDLPE versus XLPE with us before committing this tank to chemical service. Its fitting and gasket configuration is not listed in our specs, so confirm what is installed against the technical drawing on this page and order compatible hardware in the materials noted below. Compatibility always depends on concentration, temperature, and the fitting and gasket materials you specify, so treat the list below as a starting point and confirm against the manufacturer's concentration- and temperature-specific chemical-resistance chart for your exact conditions.
With the right hardware this tank suits, among others: Acetic Acid at 60% (PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets), Aluminum Sulfate at 50% (PVC, EPDM), Calcium Chloride at 40% (PVC, EPDM), DEF at 32.5% (316SS, EPDM), Ethylene Glycol at 100% (PVC, EPDM), Ferric Chloride at 50% (PVC, EPDM), Ferric Sulfate at 60% (PVC, EPDM), Ferrous Sulfate at 20% (PVC, EPDM), Hydrochloric Acid at 37% (PVC, Viton), Hydrofluoric Acid at 48% (PP/PVC, Viton), Hydrofluosilicic Acid at 26% (PP/PVC, Viton), Hydrogen Peroxide at 50% (PVC, Viton), Magnesium Chloride at 30% (PVC, EPDM), Peracetic Acid at 30% (316SS, Aflas), Phosphoric Acid at 85% (PVC, Viton), Polyaluminum Chloride (PVC, EPDM), Potassium Carbonate at 50% (PVC, EPDM), Potassium Hydroxide saturated (PVC, EPDM), Propylene Glycol (PP/316SS, EPDM), Sodium Bisulfate (PVC/PP, EPDM), Sodium Bisulfite (PVC/PP, EPDM), Sodium Carbonate at 30% (PVC, EPDM), Sodium Hypochlorite below 16.5% (PVC, Viton), Sodium Thiosulfate at 40% (PVC, EPDM), Sulfuric Acid at 98% (CPVC, Viton), Urea Solution at 50% (PP/PVC, EPDM), Zinc Orthophosphate (PP/316SS, EPDM), and Ozonated Water up to 10 PPM (PVC, EPDM). Match every fitting and gasket to the chemical you are storing, and start at our chemical compatibility reference.
The mistake to avoid
The costly error on a high-SG tank like this is matching the gasket to the fitting instead of to the chemical. Cut the list two ways. Viton gaskets are required for Hydrochloric, Hydrofluoric, Hydrofluosilicic, Hydrogen Peroxide, Phosphoric, Sulfuric, and Sodium Hypochlorite, and Aflas for Peracetic Acid. EPDM is acceptable for everything else listed, the salts, glycols, DEF and urea, carbonates and the rest, but EPDM will fail fast in those oxidizers and strong acids. Specify the gasket and fitting material per chemical from the resistance chart, never one blanket choice for the whole tank. If you are blending fertilizer in this tank, read up on blend stratification and salting-out before you trust a uniform draw, and for containment-regulated storage our Snyder Captor double-wall SPCC walkthrough covers when added secondary containment may be required.
Snyder molds this tank at four plants, in Chowchilla, CA; Lincoln, NE; Marked Tree, AR; and Philippi, WV, so a buyer almost anywhere in the country is near one. On a 142-inch, roughly 25,000-pound-loaded-and-up unit that materially lowers LTL cost. This tank ships LTL freight, quoted live to your ZIP from the nearest of those plants. Get a live freight number with our Freight Cost Estimator or call 866-418-1777 and we will quote the closest plant to you and confirm the specific gravity and fitting setup for your service.
