Residents on Tiratu and Cowper Roads have experienced a constant flow of logging trucks since mid June as a 13ha plantation of pinus radiata trees is harvested and transported to Napier for export.
The trees are on Peter and Zita Smith's property.
They planted them 24 years ago initially to stabilise slipping hillsides.
![The log loader loads the three truck trailers](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/K3Y4LTPTGJE4RVYRQNVY4DVVBI.jpg?auth=3d19f2d2dc9be59d1e5a2ac9992280b13c29ac8e6282e8725b9b5ad1b2eb0173&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
The trees were pruned and thinned from 1000 stems per hectare to 500 and left to grow.
With the export market offering good return on 24-year-old pine trees, Peter and Vita contracted Satherley Harvesting of Hawke's Bay to carry out the harvesting job.