Open front
Posts, roof, and three walls create simple, economical cover for equipment, aggregate, or a building you may enclose later.
Farm buildings
Sized to the equipment, not pre-set plans.
Machine sheds, equipment storage, hay storage, livestock shelter, and farm shops built for Southeast Indiana and Northern Kentucky since 1974.
What a farm building has to do
A farm building needs open space to turn equipment, openings wide enough for the widest machine, and enough height to get your equipment in the door.
That is a different set of problems from a two-car garage, and it is why the same twenty-four-foot building can be right for one and wrong for the other. Start from the equipment.
The trusses are made at Madison Truss on our property and every panel is manufactured at Madison Metals, also on our property. That local setup helps us coordinate materials and crews for your build.
Three ways farms build here
Enclosed with sliders
A classic machine-shed layout with wide sliding-door access, weather protection, and a walk-in door.
Shop and storage in one
A practical combination: on one end you have an enclosed work space for tools or maintenance, and on the other an open space to park equipment.
More farm buildings
Real Gosman buildings, on farms across Southeast Indiana and Northern Kentucky.
What we do
Any required site preparation — such as grading, clearing, fill, drainage, and utilities — must be coordinated independently.
Questions people ask
- How wide can you go without posts down the middle?
- Manufactured directly at Madison Truss, our trusses reach widths up to sixty feet and are custom-engineered for your building instead of selected from off-the-shelf inventory.
- Sliding doors or overhead?
- Sliding doors are often the practical choice for machine sheds because they create a wide opening and give more clearance height than a comparable overhead door.
- Should I add a lean-to later instead of building bigger now?
- Although a lean-to can be useful, it is not the most cost-effective method for expanding floor space. If you anticipate needing extra space down the road, integrating that square footage into your primary structure from the start is often the smarter choice.
- Will condensation form in it?
- Condensation can form on bare steel when conditions are right. Thermaguard installed during construction helps manage it, and costs much less than adding it later.
- Do you do dirt work and site prep?
- No. Clearing, grading, drainage, fill, and site preparation need to be complete before construction can begin. Talk with an excavator early so the site is ready when your building is scheduled.
Tell us what you want to build.
Tell us the size, desired doors, options, and location. We will prepare a free written quote.