Tanks on a flatbed

Set ups like that are very common here. Most of them are used to supply liquid fertilizer when planting corn and to supply sprayers with weed killer. A big spill like that would not be good with either of those products.

 

We used to haul hydrochloric acid (HCL) for oilwell stimulation in fibreglass tanks like that.

 

Anything that is not hazmat placard required and more than clean potable water requires a DEP clean up. If the product isn't naturally on the ground in the area, it is a hazard to the environment.

Like milk, we've had a couple milk rollovers around here in the last couple years, that milk is a hazard to the environment because it's not part of the ecosystem to the area it was spilled in.

I'm not saying it'll get a cleanup like battery acid or diesel, but the fire department will spray it off the road and put so much water on it, it's diluted and has less impact than if it was the original product.

 

Plastic tanks have a wide variety of different ratings. Some of the cheap ones I've seen are 8# per gallon. So technically plain old water is too heavy. With something like a liquid fertilizer that weighs in approximately 11.3# per gallon things are way over. I want to say there is a difference between transport and storage ratings also.
And over time poly gets brittle. I blew a tire on a sprayer going down the road once and before I got it stopped, the bouncing around cracked the tank. Luckily it was just a roundup mix and nothing got hurt other than some ditch weeds.
But if it would have been something nasty while going through town it would be on the 6:00 news.

 

Good deal.

 

Lucky man. does he have any lotto numbers.

 

That stuff is mostly molasses. I'm not sure how it would taste but you could eat it without harm. Yes, it will attract all kinds of animals, and it's pretty nasty to clean up (very sticky). In really cold weather it will almost gel.

 

We had two trailers set up like that at the farm. Sprayer tender and feet tender for the planters. I always thought the dot left us alone because their ticket books weren't thick enough LOL!

Very common set up in farm country. In the summer it was just water in the tanks, chemicals are in 200+ gallon tote or jugs. I could easily spray out 6000 gallons in a day so those trailers are pretty much a necessity at a certain point. Real ballers have stainless tankers but they are spendy.

 

Long time ago I had this old C-50 Chevy gasser dump truck. Early 70s or so.
I took the sides off the box and made a flat deck out of it. I had this old stainless milk truck tank from long ago. I chained that on it for tending water. Can't remember the gallons but it was a whole lot more than that truck wanted if you filled it up. So you only ever filled up half way or 3/4.
So now you've got an overloaded p.o.s. truck with LOTS of room to surge, mounted way high up in the air. What could go wrong?
Did I say no power steering.
It's probably a good thing it caught on fire and burned to the ground.