Three published projects, three counties, and three very different reasons to build steel in the mountains. In Blue Ridge, the Fannin County seat near Lake Blue Ridge and the Toccoa River, Tommy Wosyluk built a 60 by 86 foot custom barndominium, 16 feet high on a 3:12 pitch and finished in Burnished Slate. He thanked Burt for selling him a quality building and wrote that everyone involved made the process easy and enjoyable. One county west, in Ellijay, the Gilmer County town known for its apple orchards and the Georgia Apple Festival, Dan Parody put up a garage and shop in Light Stone. His progress report is a good picture of how these buildings go together: he wrote that the building was almost finished after three days and that it was going up real easy. Up in Towns County, Young Harris, home of Young Harris College, sits a short drive from Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia. There Frances Wolfson ordered a 36.3 by 60.6 foot barn for her llamas, 11 feet high on a 4:12 pitch, with a 10 by 9 double slider on the end wall and a partial wall designed to set on a stem wall. She wrote that her family built out the inside with no difficulty whatsoever. Much of this country falls within or borders the Chattahoochee National Forest, and mountain lots are often sloped, which is why each frame is detailed for its own ground. Barns and animal shelters belong on our agricultural steel buildings page, and you can see projects statewide on the Georgia hub.
What the Blue Ridge, Ellijay, and Young Harris projects show about building steel in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The Young Harris barn was drawn with a partial wall that sets on a stem wall, a practical answer to a sloped site. Foundation work is arranged locally by the owner, and our drawings show exactly where the frame bears.
The Blue Ridge building runs a 3:12 pitch and the Young Harris barn 4:12, steeper than the low slopes on most commercial work. Pitch is chosen for looks and runoff, and the frame is engineered to match it.
Elevation and exposure change quickly between valley floors and ridgelines in Fannin, Gilmer, and Towns Counties. Each frame is engineered to the snow and wind loads at its own address under Georgia code.
Burnished Slate in Blue Ridge and Light Stone in Ellijay show how owners match a building to wooded hillsides. Painted panels carry a coating backed by a 40-year paint warranty against rusting, fading, and chalking.
Shops, barns, and custom homes lead the published record here, and every MBMI category ships to Fannin, Gilmer, Towns, Union, and the neighboring mountain counties.
The Ellijay garage and shop in Light Stone is the mountain model, a building Dan Parody wrote was going up real easy. Two-bay garages and hobby shops for cabins and full-time homes follow the same frame.
Frances Wolfson's 36 by 60 Young Harris barn houses llamas behind a 10 by 9 double slider. Hay storage, equipment sheds, and livestock barns for mountain farms are sized the same way.
Covered arenas and stall barns let riders in the foothills keep working through rain and cold snaps, with lean-tos and tack rooms added to the same engineered drawing set.
Pontoon boats from Lake Blue Ridge and Lake Chatuge and the RVs that tour the mountains need tall, deep bays. Enclosed or open-sided storage is sized to the longest rig you own.
Retail shops, outfitters, and service garages in mountain towns like Blue Ridge and Blairsville can use the same engineered frame as our 76 by 163 Pooler retail building on the coast.
Clear-span fellowship halls and community buildings give mountain congregations one open room for services, suppers, and events, engineered to the loads at the site.
Planning a garage or shop? Our steel garage and workshop sizing guide covers bay widths, door heights, and storage space.
Every photo is a published MBMI customer project in Blue Ridge, Ellijay, or Young Harris. Click through for the full story and building specs.
The same four steps carried the Blue Ridge barndominium, the Ellijay shop, and the Young Harris barn.
Tell us the size, pitch, doors, and use. MBMI quotes are written to be easy to understand, include freight to your mountain address, and include every accessory you request.
Our in-house engineers size the frame to the loads at your elevation and detail walls for the ground you have, then send drawings, load calculations, and an itemized parts list.
Parts are manufactured at IAS-certified facilities to MBMA standards, clearly labeled to match the computer-generated erection drawings, and trucked up the mountain roads to your site.
The owner arranges the foundation and erection, guided by the drawings and labeled parts. In Ellijay, the building was almost finished in three days.
Published project pages across Georgia. Statewide coverage applies to every county, from the mountains to the Atlanta metro and the coast.
“Thanks, Burt for all the fun and for selling me a quality building. Everyone involved in the whole process made it easy and an enjoyable experience.”
“The building is almost finished. We got this far in three days. You were right, it's going up real easy. I'll send more pics when I get a chance.”
“It came out really well, don't you think? You have an excellent product and we were able to build out the inside of our metal barn with no difficulty whatsoever.”
From a shop in Ellijay to a barn below Brasstown Bald, send us the size, use, and address. Your quote includes freight and the accessories you request, engineered for your site and Georgia code.
MBMI Metal Buildings
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Fannin, Gilmer, and Towns County projects follow the state minimum codes listed by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
