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Mammoth Mill is located in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Southern Rockies. Mammoth Mill is a family owned business with customer service and the quality of our product being our highest priorities. Mammoth Mill care about their clients and want to help them achieve their dream of owning a log home. Mammoth Mill's mission is to make it possible for more people to be able to afford to build log homes without sacrificing appearance or quality. Mammoth Mill is strategically located in the Southern Rockies at an altitude of over 8,200 feet. Precipitation is typically in the form of snow and the climate is high-desert dry. Dead-standing trees are the preferred harvest for our mill. This produces high-quality, stable wood with low shrinkage and settling. All timber is stored at this location, ensuring a continuance of a very low-moisture environment. We harvest our dead-standing logs at this altitude and above. The dry climate and natural curing process over many years thoroughly dries dead-standing trees. Utilizing dry wood is absolutely essential for stable house logs. When moisture content is high in a log, shrinking, cracking and warping can occur. Wood used in conventional home construction is commonly kiln or air dried. While kiln or air drying yields a certain degree of dryness, using these processes on formidable pieces of wood, such as house logs, makes it difficult to dry the logs all the way to the center by duplicating the natural aging process.