Our Rushmore building covers are high density polyethylene woven fabric. This fabric is 12.5 oz, with long-term UV protection for a long life.

We offer more hoop cover material options for our replacement covers where we offer both 15 and 20 year covers. We suggest you visit our page specifically about our cover material.

We have fire-resistant and fire-proof covers available for both our hoop sheds and our replacement covers. Please call us to ask about these.

Hoop barns are better for almost all types of livestock. There, we said it. Now, what do we mean and why do we think so?

Hoop housing is definitely better than outside confinement. Several universities and state extensions have studied this in depth although it seems obvious that any housing is better than none.

We feel that the major reason hoop buildings are better for livestock than other buildings is air circulation. Air circulation is a key factor in animal health and by their “no corners design” hoop buildings promote good air flow to your livestock.

There are plenty of other reasons why hoop barns are great for livestock; the light transmission of the covers, the ease of building and maintenance and, maybe bottom line, the cost.

Hoop barns and pole barns have a lot in common: clear span open spaces, wide spacing of trusses and both are fairly economical.

However, hoop sheds can cost way less than half of the cost of the same square footage pole barn and be built in less than half the time.

Although hoop buildings are rapidly changing with new offerings such as insulation and "windows", we still know that they are not always the best solution for our customers’ needs.

However, if your hoop building use is for a barn or cold storage, a hoop shed is by far the most economical choice for you.

There are so many potential cost savings with a hoop shed over most conventional buildings that it’s hard to know where to start.

• The cost of hoop buildings is far less than conventional barns or even pole barns. Hoop barn cost per square foot can be less than half of other buildings.


• Construction cost of a hoop building is another big plus. Hoop barns, depending on size, can be erected in a matter of hours or, at most, days. Many people DIY hoop building construction. Putting up a hoop barn saves both time and $$.


• Almost zero maintenance costs in time or money. Once erected the only maintenance necessary is occasionally checking cover tension. Twenty years down the road, when you may have to replace your cover, you’ll find that the cost to replace your whole building cover is about the same as replacing shingles or tin on a similar sized building but the labor cost is a mere fraction of other buildings. 


• You should ask your tax professional about possible state and federal tax savings on a hoop building. 

When you look at our hoop building pages, you'll see that every hoop barn is available in many lengths, from short to unimaginable. Not only that, all of our barns have many options, from colors to curtains (ruffled unavailable).

We're not a big, high-dollar outfit. We can't put up a gazillion pages to price all of our products but we've got big ol' books and stuff to look them up for you. Just click here to call us!

The difficulty in building a hoop shed depends almost entirely on the size.

Small mono-tube buildings are well within the reach of the average farmer/handyman and require only a few hand tools to assemble. The hardest part of these smaller hoops is building the pony wall that it will sit on.

Large fabric tension buildings are also easy to build, they come with complete instructions and bolt together like an erector set. However, larger truss buildings do require adequate foundations and equipment that will allow you to work safely high in the air. For these reasons, we recommend a professional builder.

All of our hoop barns are fully covered by a Manufacturer’s Warranty.

All of our Rushmore buildings are fully 100% guaranteed for 3 years. Our truss building frames are then covered with a prorated warranty for a total of 15 years and our mono-tube building frames for a total of 5 years. Both of these buildings have a 15 year pro rata warranty on the cover.

To download a copy of the Rushmore Building Manufacturer Warranty, click the links below.

Mono-tube Building Warranty

Truss Building Warranty

Because we sell so many different hoop barns, each building we sell is custom made.

Most times of the year, we can custom build your hoop building in 4 to 6 weeks. Depending upon where you live, it can take another week or two to deliver it.

Spring and late summer are our busy times and it can take twice as long to get your building. This can also be true of particularly large buildings.

Clear span is an architectural term used to define the open spaces between load bearing supports or posts. The spaced in a clear span building can be divided up with walls, but they don't have to be, the outside structure can support its own weight.

It is easy for a small building to be a clear span building. It doesn't take very strong walls to hold up the roof on a 20' wide or even 40' wide shed. When you get into much wider clear span buildings that are many times needed, many times lumber structures just can't cut it. It generally requires very heavy steel to span long distances with no support.

We have Rushmore clear span buildings up to 140' wide which are much more economical than a similar sized steel building.

With a pro rata warranty, the coverage provided diminishes as the product ages.

For example, if a car battery has a five-year pro rata warranty and it fails in the third year, the buyer would receive a partial credit towards a new battery. The credit amount is calculated based on the proportion of the warranty period that has elapsed.

We know hoop buildings. We have an experienced staff that can help you through the process of getting the building that will work the best for you and your budget.

We have sold many brands of hoops in our time and we feel the Rushmore hoop buildings we are selling here are the best option for hoop barns. They are built heavier yet are at an economical price point.

We are a high-volume dealer so we are able to get a great discount on our buildings. We pass that discount along to our customers. Enough said?