Handi-Port · Nancy, Kentucky
Steel Barns
Our heavy duty square eave barn is a tall center bay with a 12 foot lean-to down each side. The center takes the equipment and the hay; the lean-tos take everything else. It is the shape a working farm actually uses.
How the barn is laid out
The center bay carries the height — that is where the tractor, the round bales and the truck go. Each lean-to runs 12 feet out from the center bay with a lower roof, and those are where you put the implements, the feed, and the things that just need to be out of the rain.
Total widths run 36 to 54 feet across, counting both lean-tos. The center bay and the lean-to leg heights are chosen separately, listed as a set of three numbers like 8-10-8 or 10-12-10 — that is the lean-to leg, the center leg, and the other lean-to leg.
Choosing leg heights
- 6-8-6 — storage and small equipment. The cheapest way to get a lot of covered square footage.
- 8-10-8 — the common farm choice: a tractor with a cab clears the center, the lean-tos hold implements.
- 10-12-10 — round bales stacked two high, a big cab tractor, or a truck and trailer through the middle.
- 6-10-6 and 8-12-8 — a tall center with lower lean-tos, when you need the height in the middle only.
What you can add
End walls on the center bay, sheeting on the lean-to sides, gables, roll-up doors and walk doors are all priced separately, so you can close in the parts that need it and leave the rest open.
A very common build is: both ends of the center bay closed with a roll-up door on one, one lean-to sheeted on the outside, the other left open.
Site and concrete
Barns need a level site more than anything else we build, simply because they are wide. A 54 foot span across a slope means a lot of fill or a lot of extra leg.
Most barns are set on ground and rebar-staked. If you are pouring, call for dimensions first at 606-871-7303.
Delivered and installed within 180 miles of Nancy, Kentucky
Our own crew delivers and sets the building — we do not hand you off to a contractor. Anywhere inside the 180-mile circle is covered, which reaches Lexington, Louisville, Bowling Green, Knoxville and Nashville. Outside it? Call us, we can often work it out.
Questions we get asked
- Is this a pole barn?
- No. It is an all-steel tube frame with steel roofing, not posts and trusses. It goes up in a day or so and does not rot at ground level.
- Can I add lean-tos later?
- It is far cheaper to buy them with the barn. Adding later means returning with a crew and matching an older roof.
- What is the widest you build?
- 54 feet overall on the standard barn line. Call the office if you need wider and we will tell you what is possible.