Snyder Industries 3000 Gallon Plastic Horizontal Leg Tank with Securing Hoops

Where it stands, and why a rating changes the liquid rather than the mount

Put the mounting question first, because the rating on this sheet changes what goes in the tank and nothing at all about where it sits. This body is 142 inches long, 92 inches wide and 76 inches tall, and it stands on flat feet moulded into its own underside with securing hoops in its name. That means a poured slab in a yard, cured and level before the tank lands; a steel skid built to the hoop positions rather than to whatever looked convenient; a mix-station apron with the pump and the reel alongside and nothing mounted on the shell. At 76 inches it clears under the eave of most machine sheds and fertilizer barns, which is exactly why a horizontal gets bought at this volume instead of a vertical, and nearly eight feet of width means it wants a bay rather than a walkway. The hoops are the mounting feature and they are worth using properly: restraint that pulls down through a designated band onto the legs is a different thing from a pair of straps cinched over a curved wall. Underneath, the discipline is absolute. A rotationally molded floor bears on the whole surface it touches and nothing else, so a rut, a raised lip, a hollow or a cracked board becomes the bearing point for 25,020 pounds of water, or up to 37,530 pounds of contents at this tank's rating. Level, continuous, full contact across all 142 inches, and the overflow drained away from the slab edge rather than under it. Surge is the other design load: 3000 gallons in a body nearly twelve feet long moves fore and aft hard at part-full, and it lands in the anchors. Where a tank like this travels, the classification question and what an agricultural exemption covers are set out in the applicator and leg tank classification guide, with the portable utility case in the loaf-style portable utility tank guide. Size the volume honestly in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve you never draw and the freeboard a warming liquid needs from the tank sizing guide.

One shell, two ratings: reading this 3000 gallon sheet honestly

Read this table as a rating table, not a size table, because three of the five rows are the same rectangle at the same 1,010 or 1,017 pounds. This page is the specific gravity 1.5 rating, with 37,530 pounds given as maximum contents. The SII-7500000C37 is the same 142 by 92 by 76 inch shell at the same 1,010 pounds, carrying the higher of the two specific gravity grades and a correspondingly higher maximum contents figure on its own sheet; those figures belong to that page and none of them is repeated here. The sheet gives the pair and explains the split nowhere, so we print exactly what it says and leave the interpretation where it belongs: with the specific gravity of the liquid you actually intend to store, which is the number to give us at order. The SII-7500000W94303 completes the group at 1,017 pounds and is named for water only on the sheet; that name is the specification and we repeat it without adding to it. Outside the three, the 2600 gallon SII-8470000C26 is the long, low option at 155 by 82 by 70 inches and 1,014 pounds, which is the one to take when the cover is low and the bay is long; the 3400 gallon SII-7520000C37 at 155 by 82 by 88 inches and 1,500 pounds is the one to take when you would rather add gallons than add a second slab, a second valve and a second hose. Between them the tank does not change in kind, only in rectangle, in lid size and in the rating printed on its own sheet.

Comparing against another maker? Send the competing spec to 866-418-1777 or a quote request and we will show the differences honestly.

The 3 inch outlet, the 18 inch lid, and 37,530 pounds of contents

• Outlet: a 3 inch outlet, as the sheet lists it, at the low end of the body above the legs. That is a loading port rather than a sample tap: it will feed a transfer pump or a fill line at a working rate, and it will gravity-drain the tank when the slab is graded toward it. Tell us the flow you need and the liquid before the line downstream of it is sized.
• The valve: the shut-off is the most-used and least-inspected part of an installation like this, and behind it sits up to 37,530 pounds of contents at this tank's published rating. Mount it as close to the tank as the fitting allows, on its own support off the slab, with clear access and nothing to climb over.
• Flexible first, rigid second: a connector between the valve and the first hard pipe keeps thermal movement and pump starts out of the tank fitting, and a union or flange a short way downstream means a valve change never involves working on the tank itself.
• Draining it out: 142 inches of floor holds a wide, thin residue, so grade the slab or shim the far end of a skid toward the outlet if the tank has to come out clean between products.
• No inlet on this sheet, so none is claimed: filling is through the 18 inch lid, with the fill line down inside the body rather than splashing onto the surface. Keep the lid closed against dust and birds, and keep the vent path clear at all times.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C, as this sheet gives it, applying to what goes in and to the tank standing in the sun.

Give us the liquid and its specific gravity when you order, and the fitting, the gasket and the valve material get matched to it against Snyder's current documentation rather than guessed. If the product is a blended fertilizer solution, the failure that costs money is stratification rather than the tank: a wide, shallow horizontal has a lot of surface and very little height to drive mixing, and a separated blend runs a spreader off spec before anybody looks, which the fertilizer blend stratification guide covers along with the field checks that catch it. If the site requires secondary containment, no single-wall tank provides it and the Captor double wall containment walkthrough sets out what a contained installation has to do. Where winter is real, protect the valve and the exposed pipe and leave the body to look after itself.

Water, feed and blended solutions on a yard that measures by the thousand

This is a tank for a yard that buys liquid by the tanker and hands it out by the hundred gallons. Typical duties: bulk water storage where a well or a hydrant cannot keep pace with demand; fluid feed held at a livestock or dairy operation; blended fertilizer solution at a farm or a dealer yard, loaded out to applicators and nurse trailers; brine storage for a de-icing program; wash-down, rinse and process water at a plant or packing house where the building height rules out a vertical of this volume; equipment rinse water on a machinery yard; construction water for dust control and compaction on a job that runs for months. The pattern is always the same: filled by a delivery, emptied by a pump, stood on one slab for years. That is why this page spends its words on the slab, the hoops and the valve. Two honest limits. There is no secondary containment on this tank, so where site rules demand containment the answer is a contained build rather than this one. And the 120 F / 48 C service limit on the sheet is reached by a loaded tank in full summer sun on an unshaded apron, so shade it, fill it cool, or draw it down before the afternoon. The rating on this sheet is the other honest limit, and it is the one to talk to us about: bring the specific gravity of your liquid to the conversation and we will tell you which of these two part numbers the sheet supports.

Rated chemistries for this tank

The manufacturer lists these liquids for this resin at the concentrations noted, with the fitting and gasket material to specify. Check the concentration and temperature you actually run on the linked page or in the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Ethylene Glycol
• Ferric Chloride
• Ferric Sulfate
• Hydrochloric Acid
• Hydrofluoric Acid
• Hydrofluosilicic Acid
• Hydrogen Peroxide
• Peracetic Acid
• Phosphoric Acid
• Polyaluminum Chloride
• Potassium Carbonate
• Potassium Hydroxide
• Propylene Glycol
• Sodium Bisulfate
• Sodium Bisulfite
• Sodium Hypochlorite
• Sodium Thiosulfate
• Sulfuric Acid and
• Zinc Orthophosphate.

1010 pounds empty, class LTL, and whichever of four plants is closest

Four plants mould this tank: Chowchilla, California, Lincoln, Nebraska, Marked Tree, Arkansas and Philippi, West Virginia. On freight this shape the lane out of the nearest one is worth more than any other line on the invoice, and with four to choose from there is usually a short one. The sheet gives the 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. Width is the problem to solve, not weight: nearly eight feet across needs a gate wider than the tank, a turn a long trailer can make, overhead lines clear, and firm ground at the entrance after rain. Tell us at order whether a forklift or a telehandler is on site, because nothing about a tank this size is hand-unloaded. Slings under the body, never a hook through the lid. Have the slab finished and the anchor points set to the hoops before the delivery date, then water-test the tank in place before the first working load and read the legs, the slab edge, the outlet and the lid seal through the hold. Write the specific gravity rating from this sheet on the tank itself in paint marker, because the next person to fill it will not have read the page. Save the pallet; a tank that ever has to move again is easier to move on it.