Snyder Industries 4650 Gallon ASTM XLPE Vertical Storage Tank

Marked Tree to your pad at class 300

Start with where it comes from, because on a tank this size the freight is a real fraction of what you pay. Marked Tree is in northeast Arkansas, which puts this molding on the short lanes into Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and east Texas, and on a reasonable lane into the Ohio Valley. Class 300 is what the sheet gives it. The shape helps: at 102 inches across and 154 inches tall it rides upright and inside a standard deck rather than as a wide load, so the quote comes back as ordinary freight instead of a permit job. A buyer on the far coast is paying for the miles, and at that distance a tank molded closer to them can land cheaper at the same list price. Once it is on the ground, the pad is the next thing. Full of water this tank puts 38,781 pounds on a 102 inch circle, and a rotationally molded floor bears on the whole of it, not on a ring, so the slab is engineered per the concrete pad sizing guide, poured level and in full contact, inside a berm sized to the tank where the liquid is regulated. Nearly thirteen feet of empty tank on an eight and a half foot base catches wind, so it is strapped to structure before the first fill and the straps are checked again after the first storm. Whether 4,650 gallons covers the draw between deliveries is a question for the tank sizing calculator, and the reserve to hold back and the freeboard a warming liquid needs are worked through in the tank sizing guide.

The 8210000 shell in four grades, plus the 4,600 and the 4,900

Buy this one when the footprint is the constraint, the liquid is no denser than the 1.5 rating on this sheet, and light is not an issue. The N42 and N48 are the heavy-duty walls in the same shell, each rated as its own sheet says, and each listed at 1,613 pounds empty against this tank's 1,200; the N46 is the black tank at this same 1,200 pounds for a liquid that sunlight degrades. Step sideways and the geometry changes rather than the volume: the 7000500N40 spreads 4,600 gallons over a 120 inch base at 116 inches for a site with floor and no headroom, and the 5480000N40 stacks 4,900 gallons on a 90 inch base at 202 inches for a tall bay and a tight slab.

Want us to check the fit? Send the site dimensions to 866-418-1777 or through a written quote request and we will confirm the tank, the pad and the freight.

154 inches up to the manway

• Access: 18 inch threaded, vented manway at 154 inches. That is nearly thirteen feet, high enough that whoever opens it wants a fixed platform with a rail, not a ladder and a hope. A dip tube to the floor keeps the fill from splashing, and a vent run outdoors and sized to the delivery pump keeps the headspace from going positive while a truck is pushing into it.
• Outlet: the sheet lists the outlet as 13.75. No pipe diameter, thread form, material or gasket appears with it, so the draw-off arrangement is confirmed at order against the liquid you are storing rather than assumed here.
• Structure: two flange lines on the sheet, and no lug count listed.
• Service limit: 140 F / 60 C.

Height is the fitting story on this tank. Nearly thirteen feet of liquid standing over the base is the strongest suction head anything in the 4,650 family gives you, which is worth real money if a transfer pump has to run flooded down to the last few inches. Mount that pump below the draw-off so gravity keeps it primed, put a low-level float on the tank so it stops before it pulls air, and carry the first valve on its own support off the pad rather than hanging it on the tank wall. The same height is the reason the manway gets a proper platform: a lid at 154 inches is opened in wind, in rain, and at night, and a tank that is awkward to open is a tank nobody inspects. Look at the band of wall above the liquid line with a light every time the lid comes off.

Where a 4,650 gallon slim tank earns its floor space

This is the tank you buy when the slab you have is eight and a half feet across and the volume you need is 4,650 gallons. Municipal chemical rooms, a plating line squeezed between existing equipment, a food plant adding a cleaning solution tank in an aisle it cannot widen, a co-op fitting one more vessel behind the shed. It is a storage wall rated to 1.5 on the sheet and it holds water without complaint, but a fire reserve is a different design problem with its own sizing discipline and freeze rules, which the fire-water reservoir design guide lays out before you commit a tank to it. Where a plant is banding stored water by quality and moving it through treatment stages, the industrial water reuse tank topology article shows where a vertical of this size sits in the train and what it should and should not be asked to do.

A 102 inch crate, 1,200 pounds, one plant

It ships crated at 102 inches by 102 inches by 154 inches from Marked Tree, Arkansas, as freight at class 300 as the sheet lists it, and the freight cost estimator prices that lane to your ZIP. The listed price is before freight. At 1,200 pounds empty a crane or a telehandler stands it up with straps under the body, never through the manway, and the straps to structure go on before the lift equipment leaves the site. Fill it with water to the manway once, hold it, and watch the pad edge and the base for movement or a weep before anything else goes in, then drain and dry it. Do that hydrostatic fill in daylight with one person watching the base the whole time, because the first fill is the cheapest hour you will ever spend on this tank. A photo of the tank on its pad, full, on day one is worth keeping; it is the baseline every later inspection is compared against.