330 gallon

01Specs

A 330 gallon IBC holds roughly 1,250 litres, and the weights assume water at 8.34 pounds a gallon.

02Where the extra height pays and costs

The 330 gives 20 percent more volume on the same floor. That is a gain wherever floor is the limit: a crowded pad, a rack with one tote position, or a trailer where a stack is limited by the plate and not by the roof. It costs seven inches of headroom.

Empty totes can be stacked three high by one source, and four high by another, while full ones go two high. A stack of 330s is therefore taller than a stack of 275s, and a low door or a trailer roof may decide the size. The plate decides the stack.

03Who asks for it

• Blenders and distributors with a repeat fill sold by the 330.
• Farms and nurseries who want more water per stand.
• Plants with a pad of 330s who want to list the whole pad together.
• Plants moving off drums, where six drums become one tote.

04Ticket prefilled with this size

The buttons above open the request page with the 330 gallon size in the note. Give the grade, the count and the last contents on a sell ticket, and the grade, the job and the ZIP on a buy ticket. A seller whose pad has both sizes lists each.

05The taller tote

A 330 gallon tote holds about 1,250 liters, the larger of the two common sizes, and needs about 53 inches of vertical clearance on the same 48 by 40 inch base. It equals six 55 gallon drums and takes about 1.5 pallets of floor. The extra height decides whether it clears a door or a low roof, and it makes the tote less stable on a stand than a 275.

Not all 330s are the same. Cage design and wall thickness create small differences between makers, so a lot of 330s from different sources may not stack or fit a rack identically. A buyer who needs matching units should ask for one maker per lot and check the plate for the manufacturer and date.

In a truck, 330s count within the medium range of 28 to 56 per trailer, between 7,000 and 19,600 gallons. They may be stacked two high when full and up to four high empty, and the plate gives the stacking test load.

+More in Sizes and types

• 275 gallonThe 48 by 40 by 46 inch tote: footprint, weight and how it loads.
• Dimensions and weightsFootprint, height, capacity and empty and full weights for 275 and 330 gallon totes, with gallons, liters, pounds and kilograms checked.
• 275 vs 330How a 275 and a 330 gallon tote differ in height, capacity and use, and which one a plant, a farm or a gardener should ask for.
• TruckloadsHow the desk handles full and part trailer loads of 275 and 330 gallon totes for plants and blenders, and what a load request needs.
• CagedThe galvanized grid and pallet base around an HDPE bottle.
• All-plasticA molded polyethylene tote with no steel cage.
• MetalCarbon or stainless steel totes, often UL 142 listed.
• Bag-in-boxA single-use liner in a cardboard cradle, up to about 950 litres.
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