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If so how bad were you stuck? How did you get out?

Tell me what a bar ditch is, and I'll think on it a while. I've been in several regular old ditches, and got out several different ways. The craziest one was, I got pulled out by a logging mule in the early 1970s. The logger told me what ever I do, don't honk the horn. I asked him why, and he said last time he pulled a car out, the lady honked the horn and his mule got spooked and took off with the car through a muddy creek bottom corn field. After I saw how easy the mule pulled me out, I believed him.

I thought 338 was asking if anyone has been stuck in a bar B-itch? Never stuck, always able to escape.

A bar ditch is the small trench created on each dirt road side after the grader has surfaced the road crown for both reconditioning & water run off. Though very shallow, less than a foot normally, it can be quite soft & mushy. On a typical red dirt road, having considerable clay content, your vehicle will easily slide into it and be stuck to the point that it will continually track your wheels despite countersteering.

Yes, front bumper, and rear bumper, a real pain in the azz, had to use a jack and put stuff under the wheels.

Been stuck in a bar. Been stuck in a ditch. Never been stuck in a bar ditch.

I had to google....lol(not..)


C'mon people.

Casey Jones was a son of a vitch, parked his car in a whore house ditch.

What the hell is that? as well.

Woke up going 60mph halfway in the ditch once south of Scobey and once on the interstate east of Butte.

Did you say a cuss word while stuck?

I did the same thing between Pueblo and Fort Carson! That will wake you up for sure. My buddy was asleep in the front seat. I thought he was going to whoop my ass! He stayed awake the rest of the way to Fort Carson! LOL!

All of my potential shotgun riders KNOW never to sleep. They can sleep at home.

Had a cooper tire blow out and put me in a bar ditch, pulling a heavy trailer. Buddy pulled me out. My passenger quarter panel was destroyed. Never bought another Cooper tire ever again.

Bar ditch, burrow pit, mud hole, sand bed, ice, snow!
All kinds of places.
Everything from winch trucks, dump trucks, come-a-long, jacks and timbers, tractors, other vehicles.

Always thought bar ditch was short for borrow ditch..

Dirt was borrow to build the road bed up..

Ive seen rectangular ponds built in places along the highway.

I perfer to go in the crick. I was stucked perty good. Them big ol rocks messed up the paint reel good too

Oh, never considered. Maybe that is right.

My incident happened on a dirt road we called the "Nascar turn road", had a big 90 degre turn that was angled.

In my part of Montana it was called the "borrow pit," at least when I was growing up. Far as I know they're all the same thing. And yes, have been stuck in a couple of 'em....

Sort of like the bar or borrow pit. Those pits you see near overpasses where they “borrow” dirt to build up the approaches to oveasses.

Spud ditch. That'll fugg ur world up.