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Old 06-08-2009, 09:08 PM
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Jacking will lift about anything however your problem is the opposite for what the jacking is designed to do, jacking is to lift SUNKEN slabs and or foundations. In your case your trying to lift up a slab to meet a slab that is being raised by the tree, you will never win this battle as the tree will keep lifting the slab for years (other slabs as well).
Another problem you are going to have is eventually the slab/s that lift from the tree WILL crack and the part not held by the tree root will fall back down to the dirt from were it came.
If it were me, I'd bear with it for not and when the slabs start cracking remove them and put in a deck that is more accommodating to being close to trees like a low set wood deck.
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