Snyder Industries 325 Gallon White PCO Water Tank No Hoops

Merced, California, and the lane a hundred and sixty-three pound tank travels

This tank is moulded at Merced, California, and that single fact shapes the buying decision more than people expect. California is a short lane for the West Coast and the Southwest and a long one everywhere else, and on a tank that is only 163 pounds empty but 69 inches long and 38 wide, freight is priced on the space it occupies rather than on what it weighs. A low, wide, light object is exactly the shape that costs more to move than the scales suggest, so get the lane quoted before the budget is fixed. The compensation is at your end: 165 pounds on the shipping weight comes off a tailgate with two people and needs no forklift, no dock and no appointment, which matters when the delivery address is a yard, a depot or a workshop rather than a warehouse with a loading bank. Then there is where it sits, and the dimensions tell that story clearly. Sixty-nine inches long by 38 wide by 37 tall is a long, low rectangle: nearly six feet of length, a little over three of width, and just over three feet of height. That is a shape designed to lie down in a truck bed, on a trailer deck or on a skid rather than to stand in a corner, and the low height is the feature that earns its keep. Thirty-seven inches keeps the load low in the vehicle, keeps the centre of gravity down through every corner, and generally keeps the tank below the driver's line of sight in a mirror. A rectangle also uses the bed instead of wasting the corners the way a drum does, and it will not roll if a strap goes slack. Mount it on flat, continuous, level support under the whole 69 by 38 inch base, not across two rails with the middle unsupported, and strap over the body rather than over the lid so the straps pull the tank down onto its base. The sheet gives no baffle, so assume the liquid moves: brake earlier when it is full, and run the tank either full or nearly empty rather than half, because a half-full tank shoves hardest. The sheet gives 2,710 pounds of water, and that is what a strap, a deck and a bed side hold when the vehicle stops hard. Where the tank lives at a fill station or on a yard slab rather than on a vehicle, the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out the framework for the surface under it. Check that 325 gallons is genuinely your route or your job in the tank sizing calculator before buying the footprint, and take the freeboard for a mix that warms or foams from the tank sizing guide.

Three twenty-five and two hundred

Two tanks, and the comparison is almost entirely about the deck you have. SII-1660000C137 holds 200 gallons in 49 by 39 by 39 inches at 76 pounds. Read those numbers against this tank and the pattern is clear: the smaller tank is a foot and a half shorter, fractionally wider, two inches taller, and less than half the empty weight. That combination makes it the tank for a short bed, a small trailer or a crew who load and unload it by hand between jobs, because 76 pounds is a genuine two-person lift and 163 is a chore. This tank goes the other way. It buys the extra volume by using length, which is the dimension a pickup bed, a flat deck or a service body has most of, and it keeps the height two inches lower while doing it. Lower and longer is the better arrangement on a vehicle that corners all day, and the extra volume is fewer refills on a route that runs away from the yard. The honest test is arithmetic rather than preference: how many stops before a refill, how far the refill is, and whether the tank comes out of the vehicle at the end of a season by hand or by machine. If it never comes out, buy the length. If two people lift it twice a month, look hard at the lighter one.

Pad already poured? Send its size to 866-418-1777 or in a quote request and we will match a row to it, freight to your ZIP included.

An eighteen inch lid and nothing else published

• The fill opening: 18 inches is the only opening on this sheet, and on a tank 37 inches tall it sits at about hip height on a shop floor and knee height in a bed. Eighteen inches is generous for a tank this size: it takes a fill hose, a wand, a jug, a strainer basket and a lance for rinsing, and it lets you see into the tank properly, which is worth more day to day than any other feature here.
• The lid and the road: the sheet does not describe the lid as vented and gives no gasket detail. On a tank that travels, how the lid behaves over a bump with a full load is worth confirming against the part before you buy, not after the first spill in the bed.
• Outlet and draw: no outlet and no inlet is published, so no size, thread or position is claimed. With the top opening as the only published route in or out, the usual working arrangement is a suction line and a foot strainer dropped through the lid to a frame-mounted pump. Keep the pump below the liquid line where the layout allows, and clamp the suction hose to the frame so the lid rim never carries it.
• Off the bottom: set the strainer clear of the floor of the tank so the last settled inch is not the first thing the pump lifts at the start of the next job.
• Level: no sight tube, no gauge and no graduation appears on this sheet. If the operator needs to read the level from the ground or the cab, specify it when you order rather than improvising it later.
• Limits: this sheet publishes no specific gravity rating, no maximum operating temperature and no warranty term, so none is stated here. The published figures are the capacity, the dimensions, the weights, the lid and the freight data.

Tell us the liquid when you order and the lid arrangement, the strainer and any fitting we add are matched to it instead of being left generic. What goes in an applicator tank is the operator's decision, made against that product's own label and the licence it is applied under; the label is the document that governs, not a web page.

Route work, grounds crews and a tank sized to the bed

Three hundred and twenty-five gallons on a long, low rectangle is bought by operations that work away from base for a full day: pest control and lawn care route vehicles, turf and ornamental crews, golf course and sports field maintenance, municipal parks, cemetery and right-of-way trucks, nursery and greenhouse trailers, and building service contractors who wash, dose and rinse on site. The same body does honest second duty as a water supply for equipment washdown, for mixing at the job and for topping up a smaller sprayer, and that dual use is often what decides the size. Beyond the route, this shape also serves as a low-profile water tank on a trailer, a skid or a utility vehicle where nothing taller will do. The discipline that pays for itself is sizing the tank so that it is genuinely emptied on the job: a tank sized to the work is a tank that never has to be drained, disposed of and explained, and that is the strongest argument there is for buying the volume the route actually uses rather than the biggest one that fits.

California to your ZIP, a hundred and sixty-five pounds on the scale

The sheet lists Merced, California as the plant, the freight class as LTL, and no NMFC code. The ship weight is given as 165 pounds against an empty weight of 163, and the ship dimensions are the tank's own 69 by 38 by 37 inches. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. Two people take it off a tailgate; nobody should try it alone, because the length makes it unwieldy long before the weight makes it heavy. Carry it by the body, never by the lid, and keep it flat. Set it on its deck, skid or bench, strap it down empty, then fill it with clean water on level ground and watch the lid and the base through a full 2,710 pound load before any product goes near it. Where the tank is going straight into service and the acceptance matters, the hydrostatic test methodology for new install acceptance sets out the fill discipline, the hold time and what to watch while the water is in it. Then drive a short loop with that water aboard and check the straps again, because a strap that has bedded in after a mile wanted another turn. Paint the contents and the date on the shell the day it enters service; a tank nobody can identify from the tailgate is the one that gets topped up with the wrong thing. Tape a copy of the spec sheet inside the control panel door; the next person to touch the tank will not have the box it came in.