My $0.02...

Even though the soil in the red dashed area is "very soft and loose", it is
compacted enough to prevent you from pushing the tree upright. The
suggestion here is to dig under that area, damaging existing roots as much
as possible. When you have excavated enough dirt, you should be able to
push the tree upright and backfill. Of course, you want to be careful about
not digging too deep a hole to avoid the tree ending up lower in the ground.
Lots of work, though.

The alternative would be to seek professional help. Those folks have the
equipment to handle situations like this. I bet they'll do something like
bring in a crane of some sort, dig around the red dashed area, pull the tree
upright, and backfill.

"miamicuse" wrote in message
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Thanks for the advise, the problem however is actually getting to a point
where I can stake it.

This is a picture of what the situation is:

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-...reeleaning.JPG

The tree is near the corner of a fenced area. I added some red dashes to
show where the roots are coming up and the soil is loosened...and the
green
arrows showing how it is leaning.

I need to push it in the opposite direction. I cannot use a car or truck
inside the fence as cars cannot access that area. To it's left is a
swimming pool and another tree.

I along with two other neigbors tried pushing it by hand, didn't yield at
all.

I outlined the fences in two colors. The brown outlined side butts up
against my neighbor, who has a pool on the other side, so can't pull from
there. Otherwise that would be the right direction to pull.

On the other side of the blue fence is a back alley wide enough for cars.
This is where they come pick up garbage. I can get a truck in there to
pull
using a rope? But it will be pulling at an angle instead. Also, the main
truck is lower than the fence where I can apply leverage, so may be
pulling
will mess up the fence.

Is this tree caught between "a pool and a fence"? I can see no good
solution...

MC