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Title: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: blueee on March 21, 2015, 10:47:56 PM

you think theres a way one could easily jack up a slab of sidewalk the way a bursted pipe or tree truck would do it?

also anyone ever gone at skatestoppers with a cordless grinder? do they cut through easy enough?

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: Prodigal Son on March 21, 2015, 11:08:13 PM

Pneumatically? Though I dont know the apparatus to do that. Or..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31uSPxKmBFA

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: blueee on March 22, 2015, 03:21:25 AM

i was thinking mor like a stick of dynamite in someones lawn drain

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: weedbix on March 22, 2015, 03:43:09 AM

^ ha

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: metalbmxer on March 22, 2015, 07:37:22 AM

I would think a well placed hit with a small sledge hammer would do the trick. either that or well placed screwdriver working as a chisel to create a wedge

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: Allah on March 22, 2015, 07:58:04 AM

Crowbar in a crack maybe?

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: Sebastian on March 22, 2015, 09:36:25 AM

I dunno about an entire sidewalk slab, but skaters are always propping up tree grates and trap doors with their filmers board to make wedges up to taller ledges, over gaps, etc.

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: MilkyWilky on March 29, 2015, 04:29:01 AM

If you're patient you could plant a tree. Come back everyday and read it a poem by Tupac Amaru Shakur

Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.

Title: Re: jack up concrete diy spot, just a thought
Post by: Alex. on March 29, 2015, 12:55:42 PM

Expanding foam to lift slabs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0UlIgh634

Cutoff wheel on cordless grinder for stops.