Snyder Industries 50 Gallon Industrial HDLPE Rectangular PCO Tank 1.5 SG

Twenty inches wide across a truck bed rail

The width is the number that decides this purchase. Twenty inches across is narrow enough to sit between the wheel arches of a pickup bed with room on both sides for a hose reel, a toolbox or a second tank, and 38 inches of length runs front to back against the headboard rather than across the bed. At 22 inches tall it stays below the top of most bed rails, which keeps the load out of the wind, out of sight and under the height of a tonneau or a cap. That is the whole argument for a low rectangle instead of a drum or a round tank: a cylinder wastes the corners of a bed and rolls if it is not cradled, and this shape does neither. The same geometry works on a trailer deck, on a skid frame, on a utility body shelf and on a shop floor beside a fill station. Wherever it goes, it wants flat, continuous, level support under the whole 38 by 20 inch base, and it wants to be strapped. Empty the tank is 40 pounds and one person carries it; filled with water the sheet gives 417 pounds and at the rating it gives 626 pounds, and a 626 pound load that slides in a bed is a load that takes the bed side with it. Strap over the body, not over the lid, and put the straps where they pull the tank down onto its base rather than pinching the wall. Baffling is not on this sheet, so assume the liquid moves when the vehicle stops: brake earlier with it full, and keep it full or nearly empty rather than half, because a half tank is the one that shoves. Check the volume against your real route before you buy the shape, because 50 gallons of finished mix is a working day for some operations and half a morning for others: run it through the tank sizing calculator, and take the freeboard a warming or foaming mix wants from the tank sizing guide. Where the tank ends up as a fixed shop fixture rather than a travelling one, the placement of every opening is worth planning once instead of drilling twice; the top fitting placement guide sets out how the fill, the vent, the level and the drain are laid out so they do not fight each other.

Four PCO tanks, two footprints, one step up to a hundred

Three of these five hold 50 gallons and they are not one product in three wrappers. This tank and SII-1170000C137 share a footprint to the inch and a weight to the pound; the second one carries "No Hoops" in its own name and this sheet says nothing at all about hoops, so the honest comparison is by part number and price rather than by a difference we can describe. SII-PCO50 is the interesting one in the group: it holds the same 50 gallons in 38 by 19 by 23 inches at 25 pounds, an inch narrower, an inch taller and fifteen pounds lighter on the scale. Where a tank is lifted in and out of a bed by one person every week, that lighter listing is worth reading; where it is strapped down once and left, this heavier industrial listing is the one to hold on to. SII-1090000C137 is the step down at 30 gallons in 25 by 19 by 23 inches and 20 pounds, and it is genuinely shorter front to back, which is what makes it fit a small utility body or the back of a side-by-side. SII-1200000N43 is the step up: 100 gallons on the same 38 inch length but 30 inches wide and 31 inches tall. Note what that costs. Ten more inches of width is the difference between clearing a wheel arch and sitting on top of it, and 31 inches tall puts the lid above most bed rails. Buy the hundred when the route, not the vehicle, is the limit, and measure the bed before you do.

Ready to choose a row? Add the 50 gallon tank to your cart above with freight quoted to your ZIP, or 866-418-1777 will confirm it against the site first.

No outlet on the sheet, a six inch lid on top

• Outlet and discharge: this sheet publishes no outlet and no inlet. We will not print a size or a position for a fitting the maker does not list. Tell us how the mix is meant to leave and we will confirm what the part carries before it ships.
• Valve and suction in practice: with no published outlet, the working arrangement on a tank of this size is a suction line and a strainer dropped through the top opening to a pump mounted on the frame. Support the line off the frame, not off the lid rim, and keep the pump below the liquid line where the layout allows it, because a pump that has to lift on every start is a pump that wears in a season.
• Access and filling: a 6 inch lid at 22 inches off the base, which is knee height in a truck bed and bench height on a shop floor. Six inches takes a fill hose, a wand and a strainer basket; it does not take a hand and a forearm, so decide how this tank gets rinsed out before you decide what goes in it.
• Level: the sheet publishes no sight tube, no gauge and no graduation. If you need to read the level from the driver's seat or from the ground, that is a fitting to specify at order time rather than a feature to assume. The level gauge selection guide works through the choices honestly.
• Limits: no maximum service temperature and no warranty term appear on this sheet. The specific gravity rating of 1.5, printed as 1.5 with a maximum of 12.52 pounds per gallon, is the only rating on it.
• Identity: a tank on a vehicle is read by people who did not fill it. Mark the contents on the shell before it leaves the yard; the tank label and signage guide covers what belongs on it and in what order.

Name the product you are mixing when you order and the lid seal, the strainer and any fitting we add are matched to it rather than left generic. Where the tank will live over a floor drain or inside a building, the containment question is separate from the tank question, and the Captor containment comparison sets out the polyethylene route against the steel one on the points that decide it.

Route work, spot treatment and the tank that rides all day

Fifty gallons in a low rectangle is bought by operations that finish a tank in a shift and refill at a base: pest control and lawn care route trucks, turf and ornamental crews, right-of-way and fence-line work, municipal parks departments, golf course maintenance, greenhouse and nursery crews, and building service contractors who dose and rinse rather than spray. The common thread is that the tank travels, it is filled at a known point, and the mix is made for the day rather than stored for the season. That is a different duty from bulk storage and it puts the wear somewhere else: on the straps, on the lid, on the suction line and on whoever has to lift it. A tank sized so it is emptied is a tank that does not need to be drained, disposed of and explained, which is the strongest argument there is for buying the volume your route actually uses instead of the biggest one that fits.

What this tank is listed to hold

Each line is a liquid the resin is rated for, at the concentration shown, with the fitting and gasket to order. Follow the link for the full rating, or search the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

• Acetic Acid at 60% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Aluminum Sulfate at 50% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Calcium Chloride at 40% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• DEF (diesel exhaust fluid) at 32.5% - 316SS fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Ferrous Sulfate at 20% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Magnesium Chloride at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Sodium Carbonate at 30% - PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets
• Urea Solution at 50% - PP/PVC fittings, EPDM gaskets

Forty pounds, three plants and a parcel-mode shipment

The sheet lists three plants for this part: Chowchilla, California, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Philippi, West Virginia. Three moulding points is a real advantage on a small tank, because the lane that matters is the short one, and a West Coast, a plains and an Appalachian option between them cover most of the country without a cross-country haul. The freight class is given as UPS, which is a mode rather than a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-03, and the shipping size is 38 inches long by 20 inches wide by 22 inches high. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. At 40 pounds one person takes it off the truck and carries it, which is the rare tank that needs no machine at either end. Set it in the bed or on the skid, strap it down empty, and then fill it with clean water on the level and watch the lid seal through a full 417 pound load before any product goes near it. Drive it a short loop with that water in and look at the straps again; a strap that has bedded in after a mile is a strap that wanted another turn. Write the contents on the shell in paint marker the day it goes into service, because a tank nobody can identify from the tailgate is the tank that gets topped up wrong. Leave room to walk all the way around it; the side of the tank nobody can see is the side that leaks.