Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon Plastic Horizontal Leg Tank with Securing Hoops

Where the hoops go: setting a 3000 gallon horizontal so it cannot walk

The reason to buy this part number rather than a bare shell is in its name, and the reason matters most on the day it is installed. Securing hoops give a 142 inch body designated bearing bands to be held down through, instead of a pair of ratchet straps thrown over a curved wall and tightened until something creaks. On a slab that means anchor points set into the pour, in line with the hoops, so the restraint pulls the tank down onto its own legs rather than squeezing its waist. On a steel skid it means the frame is built to the hoop positions, not to whatever looked convenient after the tank arrived. On a purpose-built deck it means the restraint carries a share of a surge load that would otherwise land on the tie-down straps alone. Where this tank sits: a poured slab in a yard, cured and level before delivery; a fabricated skid set down by machine and left; a mix-station apron with the pump and reel beside the tank and nothing mounted on it. At 76 inches tall it stays under the eave of most machine sheds and fertilizer barns, which is what a horizontal at this volume is for; 92 inches of width is close to eight feet, so it wants a bay rather than a walkway. Underneath, nothing is negotiable. A rotationally molded floor bears on the whole surface it touches and nothing else, so a rut, a lip, a hollow or a broken board becomes the bearing point for 25,020 pounds of water, or up to 47,538 pounds of contents at the rating. Level, continuous, in full contact across all 142 inches, drained away from the slab edge. Then plan for surge: 3000 gallons in a body nearly twelve feet long swings fore and aft with real authority at part-full, which is what the hoops and the anchors are there to take. How a leg or applicator tank is classified when it travels is set out in the applicator and leg tank classification guide, and the portable utility case is covered in the loaf-style portable utility tank guide. Confirm the volume against your draw in the tank sizing calculator, with the reserve and the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Two 3000 gallon part numbers rated differently, and a water-only third

Three part numbers on this sheet share one rectangle, and the difference between them is the honest reason to read the table rather than the price. This tank is rated at a specific gravity of 1.9, with 47,538 pounds given as maximum contents. The SII-7500000N43 is the identical 142 by 92 by 76 inch shell at the identical 1,010 pounds, carrying the lower of the two specific gravity grades and, on its own sheet, a lower maximum contents figure to match; every number for that part number lives on that part number's page and none of them is asserted here. The sheet gives the pair and explains the split nowhere, so we print what it says: if the liquid is dense, this is the page with the higher published rating, and the number to give us at order is the specific gravity of what you actually intend to store. The third of the set, the SII-7500000W94303, is listed at 1,017 pounds and named for water only on the sheet, and that name is the whole specification; we repeat it as given and assert nothing else about it. Either side of the group, the 2600 gallon SII-8470000C26 trades height for length at 155 by 82 by 70 inches and 1,014 pounds, which is the buy when the cover is low and the bay is long, and the 3400 gallon SII-7520000C37 goes the other way at 155 by 82 by 88 inches and 1,500 pounds, which is the buy when you would rather add volume than add tanks. One tank means one slab, one valve and one hose, and that is usually worth more than the difference in price.

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A 3 inch outlet under 25,020 pounds of water

• Outlet: a 3 inch outlet, as the sheet lists it, at the low end of the body above the legs. On 3000 gallons that is a working port rather than a trickle: it will feed a transfer pump or a loading line at a rate a yard can live with, and it will gravity-drain the tank if the slab is graded toward it. Ask us what you intend to load and how fast before you size the line off it.
• The valve and its support: a shut-off as close to the tank as the fitting allows, carried on its own stand off the slab rather than off the tank wall, with a clear approach so nobody has to lever it. This is the component that gets operated daily and inspected never, and on a tank holding 25,020 pounds of water it is the one that has to be right.
• The first joint is flexible: a rigid line bolted from the outlet to a pump bracket puts thermal movement and every pump start into the fitting, and a pipe set in concrete will hold while the tank moves. Union or flange the line a short way downstream so a valve change never happens on the tank fitting itself.
• The last gallons: across 142 inches of floor the residue sits over a wide area, so a level slab leaves a film and a slab graded to the outlet does not. Grade the pour, or shim the far end of a skid.
• No inlet on this sheet, so none is asserted: filling is through the 18 inch lid, with the fill line taken down inside the body. Keep the lid closed and the vent path clear; a blocked vent with a pump drawing hard is how a polyethylene wall gets pulled in.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C as the sheet gives it, covering the liquid and the tank standing in the sun.

Tell us the liquid and its specific gravity at order and the fitting, the gasket and the valve material get matched to it against Snyder's current documentation instead of guessed at. For blended fertilizer solutions the risk is the blend rather than the tank: a wide, shallow horizontal body has plenty of surface and very little height to drive mixing, and a stratified tank will run a spreader off spec before anybody spots it, which the fertilizer blend stratification guide works through with the checks that catch it. Where the site requires secondary containment, a single-wall leg tank does not provide it at any volume, and the Captor double wall containment walkthrough sets out what a contained installation actually has to do to count. In winter, protect the valve and the exposed run and leave the body alone.

Nurse storage, mix-station supply and bulk transfer

Three thousand gallons in a horizontal is site storage that loads other equipment. The duties: a crop-input dealer holding solution and filling applicators and nurse trailers off one valve; a farm at scale carrying starter or side-dress solution through a season; a mix station fed by tanker and drawn down by pump into smaller rigs; fluid feed at a livestock operation; brine for a de-icing program that goes out at dawn and comes back part-full; wash, rinse and process water at a plant where the roof line rules out a vertical of this volume; construction and dust-control water on a long job. The common thread is that somebody else's truck fills it and your pump empties it, which puts all the engineering in the slab, the hoops, the anchors and the valve rather than in the wall. Two limits, stated plainly. There is no secondary containment on this tank, so where the rules require containment this is the wrong product and a contained build is the right one. And the 120 F / 48 C service limit on this sheet applies to a tank sitting in full sun as much as to the liquid going in, so shade it, fill it cool, or work it down before the heat of the afternoon. What ends tanks this size early is a slab that was not flat on day one, or a restraint that squeezed the body instead of pulling it down through the hoops.

Resin compatibility, line by line

Below are the liquids this resin is rated for, the concentration each rating holds to, and the fitting and gasket to specify. Check the exact concentration and temperature you run against the chemical page or the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• 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

Four plants on one sheet, at class LTL and 1010 pounds

This tank is molded at Chowchilla, California, Lincoln, Nebraska, Marked Tree, Arkansas and Philippi, West Virginia, which is four plants and the widest plant list in this family, so wherever you are there is a short lane to one of them. The sheet gives the freight class as LTL, at 142 inches by 92 inches by 76 inches and 1,010 pounds. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. Nearly eight feet of width is the constraint rather than the weight, so confirm the gate, the turn, the overhead lines and somewhere for the trailer to stop before the truck is booked, and say at order whether there is a forklift or a telehandler on site. Slings under the body, never a hook through the lid, and set it straight onto the finished slab rather than beside it. Have the pad poured, cured, level and drained, and the anchor points set to the hoop positions, before the delivery date, because the one thing that makes a tank this size expensive is moving it twice. Take a photograph of each securing hoop and its anchor the day the restraint goes on; it is the record you will want the first time somebody asks whether the mount was ever right. Once it is full and holding, leave it alone for a day before the plumbing goes on; a settled tank is a quiet one.