Snyder Industries 50 Gallon Plastic Portable Pest Control Operator Tank

The one person duty this tank is sized around

Everything on this sheet points at a single operator working alone. Twenty-five pounds empty is the lightest tank in this group by a clear margin, and it is the number that defines the product: one person lifts it into a bed, out of a bed, onto a bench, into a shed for the winter and back out in the spring, without a second pair of hands and without a machine. Nineteen inches wide is the second number, and it is the one that gets the tank into vehicles that will not take anything else. Nineteen inches leaves room beside it on a pickup bed for a reel, a toolbox, a ladder rack leg or a second tank of a different product, and it fits in the back of a van, a utility body, a side-by-side or a trailer that a full-width tank would fill on its own. At 23 inches tall it sits below most bed rails, which keeps it under a cap or a tonneau, out of the wind and out of sight. Put those three numbers together and the argument writes itself: this is the tank for an operator who carries more than one product, works out of a small vehicle, or handles the tank personally rather than leaving it strapped down for a season. Mount it on flat, continuous, level support across the whole 38 by 19 inch base, not across two rails with the middle unsupported, and strap over the body rather than over the lid. Empty weight is not the load that matters. The sheet gives 417 pounds full of water and 626 pounds at the rating, and a narrow tank carrying 626 pounds that starts to slide puts all of that weight against one bed side. No baffle is published, so treat the liquid as free to move: run it full or nearly empty rather than half, and brake earlier with it loaded. Work out whether 50 gallons genuinely covers your stops in the tank sizing calculator before you choose the footprint, and take the freeboard a warming or foaming mix wants from the tank sizing guide. A tank filled to the lid on a cold morning is a tank pushing on its own lid by the afternoon.

Three fifties, a thirty and a hundred

Three tanks on this sheet hold 50 gallons and they are not the same purchase. This one is 19 inches wide, 23 inches tall and 25 pounds. SII-1170000N43 and SII-1170000C137 are both 20 inches wide, 22 inches tall and 40 pounds, which is an inch wider, an inch lower and fifteen pounds heavier for the identical volume on the identical 38 inch length; the second of those carries the words "no hoops" in its own name and this tank's sheet says nothing about hoops in either direction, so we make no claim about what this one has. Fifteen pounds is the whole story between the groups. If the tank lives strapped to a deck and is only ever filled and drained in place, the heavier pair are worth looking at. If somebody picks it up, this is the one. The 30 gallon SII-1090000C137 shares this tank's 19 inch width and 23 inch height exactly and is simply thirteen inches shorter front to back at 25 inches, at 20 pounds. That is the honest small option: same slot in the vehicle, less length, less product. The 100 gallon SII-1200000N43 is the step up on the same 38 inch length but 30 inches wide and 31 inches tall at 65 pounds, and it changes the vehicle: eleven more inches of width usually means the tank now sits over a wheel arch instead of between them, and 31 inches tall puts the lid above most bed rails. Buy the hundred when the route is what limits you, and measure the bed first.

Need two of them? Request a written quote for the pair with freight to your ZIP, or call 866-418-1777 and we will price the truck once.

A six inch opening and the suction that goes through it

• How the mix leaves: no outlet and no inlet is published on this sheet, so no size, thread or position is claimed here. With the top as the only published route, the working arrangement is a suction hose and a foot strainer dropped through the lid to a pump on the frame. Keep the pump below the liquid line if the layout allows, clamp the hose to the frame so the lid rim never carries it, and keep the strainer clear of the floor of the tank.
• Priming and the last gallons: a narrow tank drawn down through a top suction loses prime before it looks empty, because the strainer breaks the surface while there is still liquid in the corners. Plan the shift around that rather than chasing the last few gallons with the pump running dry.
• Filling: a 6 inch lid at 23 inches off the base. Six inches takes a fill hose, a wand, a jug and a strainer basket, but it does not take an arm, so decide how this tank gets rinsed out, with a lance and water, before you decide what goes in it.
• Air path: the sheet does not describe the lid as vented. A sealed top on a tank a pump is pulling from puts the wall under load, so confirm the venting arrangement for your pump and draw rate at order time.
• Level: no sight tube, no gauge and no graduation is published. If the level has to be read from the cab or the ground, specify it when you order.
• Limits: no maximum service temperature and no warranty term on this sheet. The specific gravity rating of 1.5 is the only rating it carries.

Name the liquid when you order and the lid seal, the strainer and any fitting we add are matched to it rather than left generic. What goes into an applicator tank is the operator's decision, made against that product's own label and the licence it is applied under; the label governs, not a web page.

Single operator routes and spot work

Fifty gallons in a narrow body is the size an individual operator actually finishes: a one-truck pest control or lawn care business, a spot treatment vehicle on a larger fleet where the main tank carries something else, turf and ornamental work at a golf course or a park, a nursery or greenhouse cart, a fence line or right-of-way utility vehicle, a campus or facilities maintenance truck, and a farm utility bed that needs a small dedicated tank alongside a bigger one. The pattern that makes this tank the right answer rather than a bigger one is carrying two products at once: two narrow tanks side by side beat one wide tank whenever the operator has to switch between jobs without going back to the yard. Dedicate each one, label it, and rinse it on a schedule the operator can state from memory. A tank that has carried three different things and been rinsed twice is a tank whose next batch nobody can vouch for.

Merced, Lincoln or Philippi at parcel weight

Three plants are listed for this part: Merced, California, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Philippi, West Virginia. A West Coast, a plains and an Appalachian moulding point between them keep the lane short for most of the country, which matters more on a small tank than on a big one. The sheet gives the freight class as UPS, which is a shipping mode rather than a numeric class, and it carries no NMFC number at all. Price the lane to your ZIP with the freight cost estimator; the listed price is before freight. At 25 pounds one person takes it off the truck and carries it to wherever it is going, with no forklift, no pallet jack and no dock appointment. Set it in the bed or on the skid, strap it empty, then fill it with clean water on level ground and watch the lid seal through a full 417 pound load before any product is near it. Drive a short loop with that water in and check the straps again, because a strap that has bedded in after a mile wanted another turn. Then do the small thing that pays for itself: paint the product name and the date on both long sides of the tank, not just one, because the side facing the tailgate is the only one anybody reads. Photograph the outlet fitting from below before the pipe goes on; a slow weep is easier to compare against than to describe.