Snyder Industries 525 Gallon Plastic Horizontal Leg Tank in White

Merced, California or Albertville, Alabama: two lanes to one tank

Two plants on one sheet, on opposite sides of the country, and that is the practical reason to look at this part number before its siblings. Merced, California and Albertville, Alabama give a west coast buyer and a southeastern buyer each a short lane to the same tank, which on a 194 pound item at class LTL is worth more than any specification on the page: freight on a light, bulky tank is priced by distance and dimensions rather than by weight, and a body 71 inches long by 49 inches wide by 56 inches tall is bulky long before it is heavy. Give us the ZIP and let the estimator pick the origin. Where it goes once it lands is short, flat and load-rated. A pickup bed, forward against the bulkhead with the vehicle's payload checked first, because 4,378 pounds of water is most of what a half-ton has to give and this tank is the heaviest empty body in its own size group. A utility trailer or flat-deck skid, bolted down through the legs with the pump and reel beside the tank rather than on it. A shop or barn floor as a standing gravity supply, where 49 inches of width leaves a walkway. In each case the surface carries everything, because legs are flat bearing feet: they bear through the whole foot onto whatever they rest on, so a bed rib, a raised toolbox lip, a warped board or a hollow in a slab becomes the bearing point for the whole load, up to 6,568 pounds of contents at the rating. Lay plywood or a mat on a ribbed deck and let it bear evenly. Then design for the surge, because 525 gallons in a body nearly six feet long swings fore and aft under braking hardest at part-full, and that energy goes into the anchors rather than the wall: restrain it in both directions through the legs. How leg and applicator tanks are classified for road use, and what an agricultural exemption does and does not cover, is set out in the applicator and leg tank classification guide, with the portable utility case in the loaf-style portable utility tank guide. Run 525 gallons against the real duty in the tank sizing calculator, and take the reserve and the freeboard from the tank sizing guide.

Four bodies between 500 and 535 gallons, and how to tell them apart

Five part numbers, thirty-five gallons of spread between the smallest and the largest, and not one of them is the same rectangle. Read this table as a shape list and the capacity column stops mattering. Three of them hold 525 gallons: this tank at 71 by 49 by 56 inches, the SII-1400000N45 at 75 by 48 by 53 inches, and the SII-1400000W94303 at 68 by 48 by 53 inches, which is the shortest body of the whole group. The sheet also gives this tank at 194 pounds against 124 and 128 pounds for those two, so the same volume arrives at three different weights and the sheet explains none of it; we print what it says. What this one has that no other tank in the group has is the 20 inch lid, the largest opening on the sheet, and on a tank that gets opened, washed out and changed between products that is the specification that decides the buy. It is also the tallest at 56 inches, which is the thing to check against a cover, a rack or a mirror line before you commit. If height is the constraint, the 78 inch SII-1400300N45 at 52 inches is the lowest and holds ten gallons more; if deck length is the constraint, the 68 inch body is the only one under six feet; and the 500 gallon SII-1400100C26 sits in the middle of the group at 72 by 49 by 55 inches. Pick the deck, then the opening, then the gallons, and the part number falls out of it.

Not sure which one? Tell us the liquid, the site and the ceiling height at 866-418-1777, or request a written quote with freight to your ZIP.

Twenty inches of opening is the most in this group

• The lid is the fill opening, and at 20 inches this sheet gives the largest one in its size group. There is no inlet field on this sheet, so no fill fitting is asserted: the tank fills through that lid, with the hose taken down inside the body rather than splashing across the surface.
• What the extra opening is worth is service, not filling. Twenty inches takes a person's shoulders, a light and a long brush, which means the inside of the tank can be inspected and washed out properly, and a product that settles, dries or crusts does not quietly end the tank's working life. If the tank will hold one liquid for ten years this matters less; if it changes product between seasons it is the whole reason to pick this part number.
• Keep it closed in transit and keep the vent path clear. A big opening is a big thing to lose on the road, and a blocked vent while a pump draws hard is how a polyethylene wall gets pulled inwards.
• The outlet, printed as given: the sheet lists the outlet as 2 and prints no unit for it, so this page prints the figure and stops there. It is not a pipe size and we will not present it as one. Tell us what you intend to connect and we will confirm the port and the thread against Snyder's current documentation before any pipe is bought.
• The valve: a shut-off carried on its own support off the deck rather than off the tank wall, then a flexible connector before any hard pipe, so brake loads, deck flex and thermal movement never land on the tank fitting. On a mobile tank that connector is not optional.
• Service limit: 120 F / 48 C, as the sheet gives it.

Tell us the liquid when you order and the fitting, the gasket and the valve material get matched to it against Snyder's current documentation instead of guessed at the counter, and tell us the colour you actually need at the same time, because the name and the colour field on this sheet do not agree and that is a question to settle before a tank ships rather than on a loading dock. Where it freezes, drain the outlet, the valve and the hose and leave the body to look after itself; a plastic valve full of ice is scrap and a tank with a crust on the surface is still a tank. And keep a spare lid gasket on the shelf: on an opening this size, opened often, the gasket is the part that wears first and the part nobody has to hand.

Nurse tank work, water hauling and yard dispensing

This size of leg tank earns its place on a fleet where every vehicle carries something and the tank gets opened regularly. The duties: a nurse supply on a trailer or flat-deck truck topping up a sprayer in the field; a spot-spraying or right-of-way rig with a pump, a reel and a wand; water hauled to stock, to a planting crew or to a remote building; starter fertilizer or fluid feed carried alongside a planter; wash-down and dust-control water on a construction, utility or landscape truck; de-icing brine on a contractor or small municipal rig; a standing gravity supply on a barn or shop floor, drawn into pails. The reason to put this particular part number under those jobs is the 20 inch lid, because every one of them is a duty where somebody eventually has to get inside the tank to clean it, and a fleet tank that cannot be cleaned becomes a single-product tank whether you planned that or not. Two honest limits. There is no secondary containment on this tank of any kind, so it is the wrong buy where the rules say a liquid must be contained. And the 120 F / 48 C service limit on the sheet is reached by a loaded tank sitting on a dark deck on a summer afternoon, so shade it, fill it cool, or work it down before the heat of the day. Everything else about a long service life is mounting: anchors through the legs, a forward restraint, and hardware inspected as often as the tank is.

Service list by chemical

One line per liquid the maker rates for this resin, with the concentration it is rated to and the fitting and gasket to order. Take your own concentration and temperature to the linked page or the chemical compatibility database before ordering.

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

Two plants, 194 pounds, and class LTL to a farm gate

Merced, California and Albertville, Alabama are the two origins the sheet publishes, and the sheet gives the freight class as LTL at 71 inches by 49 inches by 56 inches and 194 pounds. The freight cost estimator prices the lane to your ZIP, and the listed price is before freight. At nearly six feet long it rides as a pallet shipment rather than a parcel, so say at order whether the delivery address has a dock, a forklift or neither, because a pallet this size at a field entrance is a curbside drop with two people carrying. One hundred and ninety-four pounds is the heaviest empty body in its size group and a genuine two-person lift; nobody should be taking it off a deck alone, and nobody should be dragging it on its legs, because those are bearing feet and they scuff. Check the legs, the outlet and the lid seal before the driver leaves, and keep the pallet, because an empty leg tank travels around a yard on one. Before you sign for it, read the colour on the tank against the colour on the paperwork; on this part number that is the one check nobody thinks to make. Chalk the full-water line on the outside after the first fill; it is the level every later reading gets checked against.