[ATTACH]11958[/ATTACH][ATTACH]11959[/ATTACH][ATTACH]11957[/ATTACH] As you can see above, some genius decided to plant a tree directly in line with my front door, then place a poured concrete walkway over it. Of course as the tree is growing, the concrete is cracking. I need to replace the walkway, but it makes no sense laying it in the same place. So the plan is to cut the tree and place the walkway straight from door to st, which happens to be directly over where the tree is. I was wondering what you all thought of the best way to do this? best of all would be to dig the stump out completely, but as you can see in the third photo, when I did anything in my yard, I'm left with a gravel pit! Then that's another headache. At the same time, I don't want to have the walkway crack because the ground sunk as the roots/stump decomposes. thoughts/advice/suggestions? PS, once I figure out how to rotate images in windows 8, I'll edit the post with the pics in the proper position!

Hello, I am not sure if this is the right spot for this or not. If not where should i post it? I am wanting to try my hand at another concrete top. My last attempt was using quickcrete 5000. My issue with the last attempt was that the edges really were very ruff with alot of exposed aggregate. my process in building it was to use melamine and caulk the edges to give it a slight rounding look which it did, aside from them being so ruff. I vibrated the entire top with a sander to try and settle the concrete. Recently on this old house i saw they built some and they did not vibrate at all in fact there process was different then what i have read How do i get my edges to be smooth? Thanks.