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BASEMENT OIL STORAGE TANKS
Size
Capacity
(Gallons)
27"x44’/. "x6O”
27"x44'/< "x6O"
275
275
27"x44'/« "x6O"
27”x44'/» "x6O"
275
275
“LIGHT DUTY” SKID TANKS
Capacity Diameter Length Gauge Price FOB
(Gallons) (Thickness) Quarryville
300 a?" s'o” 14 $246.00
300 3'2" s'o" 12 $268.00
500 4'o" 5'5" 12 $395.00
500 4'o” 5'5” 10 $446.00
500 4'o” 5'5" 7 $552.00
1000 4'o” 10'9" 10 $681.00
1000 4'o" 10'9" 7 $809.00
NEW STEEL UNDERGROUND
FUEL STORAGE TANKS
Capacity Diameter Length Gauge Weight Price FOB
(Gallons) (Thickness) (Pounds) Quarryville
285 3’o” 5’6” 12 277 $166.00
550 4'o" 6'o” 10 537 $252.00
550 4'o" 6'o" 7 738 $312.00
1.000 4'o" 10'8" 10 845 $428.00
1.000 40" 10TT 7 U5B $492.00
NEW STEEL UNDERGROUND
SII-P3 FUEL STORAGE TANKS
Capacity Diameter Length Gauge . Weight Price FOB
(Gallons) (Thickness) (Pounds) Quarryville
285 3'o" 5'6" 10 359 $413.00
550 4'o” 6'o” 7 831 $605.00
1.000 £|T 10T 7 T 266 $893.00
2.000 . 5’4" 120" 7 1.9 U $1,308
3.000 5T 18TT 7 2J557 $1.747
4.000 5T 240” 7 (L 403 $2,177
5,000 Gal Through 30,000 Gal Prices On Request
The STI-P3 tanks bear Underwriters’ Underground Label, STI-P3 Label, 30-year
limited warranty. The STI-P3 tanks are equipped with sacrificial galvanic anodes,
urethane paint and dielectric bushings. The STI-P3 are equipped with the Protec
tion Prover II (to monitor anode voltage).
USED STEEL STORAGE TANKS
From 257 to 13,000 Gallons At .050 to .060 Per Gallon
USED UNDERGROUND
FIBERGLAS STORAGE TANKS
4,000 or 6,000 Gallons At .120 Per Gallon
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Information Customized For Farmers, Ranchers
ranches, based on historical weath
er data, says a U.S. Department of
Agriculture researcher.
Farmers and ranchers will pull
Weight
[Pounds)
Gauge
(Thickness]
Available At Below Factory List
their specific weather reports from
CLIMATE, a new microcomputer
program, said David A. Woolhiser
of USDA’s Agricultural Research
Type
Vertical
Horizontal
210
210
Vertical
Horizontal
275
275
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Price FOB
Quarryville
$132.00
$132.00
$157.00
$157.00
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. Lancaster. Farming Saturday February. t 3,. 198*011
Service.
Woolhiser, who developed the
program, said it analyses historical
weather data to simulate “what is
most likely to happen locally.” He
said the data comes from 40 years
of National Weather Service
records, including temperature and
precipitation.
National Weather Service data
for its stations in South Dakota was
the first to be adapted to make local
predictions, Woolhiser said. CLI
MATE can be worked out for other
states, he said. The program is on
floppy disks available from
Woolhiser.
A farmer or rancher gets a “cus
tomized daily outlook” that offers
a wider weather picture, he said.
That outlook can be used with
Weather Service forecasts, which
rely on current information, he
added.
“CLIMATE can help a farmer
or rancher compute the odds on
future weather in deciding when to
plant, irrigate, spray pesticide or
harvest crops,” he said.
“A farmer tells the computer his
farm's exact location by position
ing a dot or cursor representing his
farm on a map of the state shown
on the monitor,” said Woolhiser, a
hydraulic engineer at the agency’s
Aridland Watershed Management
Research laboratory, Tucson,
Ariz.
"For each farm, the computer
program selects appropriate
weather characteristics from data
at nearby weather stations,” he
said.
Advances in microcomputers
during the past five years have
made customized weather infor
mation practical for the first time.
His program will run on computers
that farmers and ranchers already
use to help make business deci
sions. He wrote CLIMATE in the
widely used BASIC language.
Woolhiser said his program also
could be used to give accurate loc
al rainfall patterns during the
design of irrigation and drainage
systems. It also could provide
accurate local temperature patterns
in the design of solar and conven
tional heating systems.