Snyder Industries 50 Gallon Rectangular PCO Tank (No Hoops)

Where a hoopless shell changes the mounting

Take the name literally and no further. The sheet says this tank is listed with no hoops, and it says nothing else on the subject: no hoop count elsewhere in the family, no strapping recommendation, no rib detail, no load rating. So the only honest statement is the one the buyer can act on. A shell with a plain, uninterrupted outside face is a shell that sits flat against a deck, a bulkhead or a bed floor with nothing standing proud to bridge on, and it is a shell that a flat strap or a ratchet band lies across without finding a ridge to slide off. If your mounting is a fabricated cradle, a frame with cross members or a rack built around a tank you already own, a hoopless outside face is the one that beds into it. That is the practical difference and it is where this page stops. Mount it on flat, continuous, level support under the whole 38 by 20 inch base, not on two rails with the middle unsupported and not on a pallet with a soft board. Empty it is 40 pounds and one person moves it; the sheet gives 417 pounds full of water and 626 pounds at the rating, and that is the load your straps and your deck are holding when the vehicle stops hard. Strap across the body and down onto the base rather than over the lid, and keep the tank either full or nearly empty on the road, because a part-filled tank with no published baffle moves its whole weight in one shove. Where the tank is going to live on a poured pad in a mix shed rather than on a vehicle, the pad itself is worth sizing rather than assuming: the concrete pad sizing guide for above-ground polyethylene tanks sets out the framework and where its boundary lies. Before you settle on the volume at all, put your real batch size and refill interval through the tank sizing calculator and take the headspace a warming mix wants from the tank sizing guide. A rectangle filled to the lid is a rectangle that pushes its own top off on a hot afternoon.

Two fifties on one footprint, a thirty below and a hundred above

The second row is this tank's twin on paper: SII-1170000N43 is listed at the same 50 gallons, the same 38 by 20 by 22 inches and the same 40 pounds, and the sheets differ in the part number, the name and the price. The name on this one says no hoops and the name on that one does not say anything about hoops in either direction, so we will not tell you that one has them. Buy by part number where a fleet is already standardised, and ask us when the mounting is fabricated and the outside face matters. SII-PCO50 is the genuinely different 50 gallon listing: an inch narrower at 19 inches, an inch taller at 23, and 25 pounds instead of 40. It is the one to look at where the tank comes out of the vehicle by hand at the end of a season. Below that, SII-1090000C137 holds 30 gallons in 25 by 19 by 23 inches at 20 pounds, and the number that sells it is the 25 inch length: thirteen inches shorter front to back than this tank, which is what lets it ride in a utility body drawer space or a small bed alongside other equipment. Above, SII-1200000N43 doubles the volume to 100 gallons but grows to 30 inches wide and 31 inches tall on the same 38 inch length. That is the choice in one line. If the bed width and the rail height are fixed, stay on this footprint and refill more often; if the route is what costs you, the hundred is there and it will change how the vehicle is loaded.

Still deciding between these? Freight to your ZIP often settles it; the wider tanks ship differently. Or call 866-418-1777 and we will walk the table with you.

Six inches of opening and nothing else published

• The discharge: there is no outlet and no inlet on this sheet, so no size, no thread and no position is claimed here. Tell us how you intend to draw from it and we will confirm what the part actually carries before it ships rather than print a fitting the maker does not list.
• Drawing off: with the top opening as the only published route in or out, the usual arrangement is a suction hose and a foot strainer through the lid to a frame-mounted pump. Clamp the hose to the frame so the lid never carries it, and keep the strainer off the floor of the tank so the last inch of mix is not the first thing it picks up.
• Filling: the 6 inch lid is the fill point. Six inches takes a hose end, a measuring jug and a wand; it does not take an arm, so any rinse routine is done with a lance and water rather than by reaching in. Plan that before the first batch, not after a product change.
• Venting: the sheet does not describe the lid as vented. A sealed top on a tank that a pump is drawing from is a wall under load, so confirm the venting arrangement for your pump and your draw rate at order time rather than discovering it on a hot day.
• Level: no sight tube, no gauge and no graduation is published. If the operator needs to read the level without opening the lid, say so when you order.
• Limits: no maximum service temperature and no warranty term appear on this sheet. The specific gravity rating of 1.5 with a maximum of 12.52 pounds per gallon is the only rating it carries.

Tell us what is going in it. On a tank whose only published opening is a lid, the mix is the one thing that decides what the seal and any added fitting have to be made of, and a generic answer is how a gasket gets bought twice.

Skid tanks, bed tanks and the applicator that fills at the shop

This shape earns its place wherever a rectangle beats a cylinder: a pest control or lawn care route truck, a landscape trailer, a skid sprayer built on a frame, a greenhouse or nursery mixing station, a municipal grounds crew vehicle, a fence-line or right-of-way rig, and the shop tank that holds the day's mix while the gun is on the reel. In every one of those the tank is filled at a base and emptied on the job, and what matters is that it fits the deck, does not roll, does not slop and can be lifted when it is empty. Fifty gallons is the size that fits a working morning for a small crew and a full day for a single operator, which is why the footprint, not the volume, is usually the thing that decides it. Nothing on this page names a product to put in it, and no page should: bring us the chemistry and we will match the tank and the seal to it.

Chowchilla, Lincoln or Philippi, forty pounds shipped

Three plants are listed for this part: Chowchilla, California, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Philippi, West Virginia. On a 40 pound tank the plant that matters is simply the nearest one, and with a West Coast, a plains and an eastern option the lane is usually short. The sheet gives the freight class as UPS, which is a shipping mode and not a numeric class, under NMFC 156600-03, and the shipping size is 38 inches long by 20 inches wide by 22 inches high, the same as the tank. Run your ZIP through the freight cost estimator for the real number; the listed price is before freight. Forty pounds means one person unloads it, so no forklift needs booking and no dock appointment needs making. Set it on its mount, strap it empty, then fill it with clean water and hold that 417 pound load long enough to read the lid seal and to watch the straps settle. Rinse it out and drain it before the working mix goes in. Keep the packaging until the mounting is finished, and put the date it went into service on the shell in marker: the first thing anyone asks about a sprayer tank that starts weeping is how long it has been on the truck. Write the outlet fitting size and material on the site plan; the replacement is ordered by those two words.