Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ever been stuck in a bar ditch?

I have been high centered on the frozen ruts in the driveway a couple times. Does that count?

Throw a High Lift jack under the back bumper. Lift both wheels a foot above road level and give the rig a push sideways.

Toss the jack in the back and proceed to work.

Ditch or barrow pit.

Once came upon a car in the sandy ditch that had black smoke rolling. It was the local tribes chief, tilted back in the seat, foot on the gas with tires burning.

He actually thought he was cruising home at 60 mph! What an interesting scene.

Defined as:


Call them borrow pits here in the NW.

Same up in the oil patch in Western Canada and if you have driven 50,000 miles in all weather up there ,When have you not been in a ditch .

Norm

Yes, hit the brakes to avoid a bull elk that ran across the road and skidded into the deep/muddy ditch. A very good big 4wd truck - but would not grip and back out. Hiked a mile or more home, got the old wrecker and my wife and we pulled the truck back onto the road.

Never been in a ditch in front of a bar before.

Wife blew a tire and lost control on a washboard road. Truck was up side down and cab in the ditch with the bed flat on the
road. Truck was a total loss. Good part was the other side of the road was a steep drop off. Wife and girls were ok other than a couple stiches on my wifes head. That was in 2000

Me,this past Monday buried the front end of my F250 in the bar ditch. Frame was on the road and no traction. High lift was at home and doubt it would have helped. Spent the night at the truck as my buddy had walked out for help. 27 miles on foot from 2:00pm to 8am before he found help. Two bird hunters picked him up and pulled the truck out.
They wouldn’t take any money. I have pulled 3 vehicles out. One a paraplegic woman who drove out on a dry looking lake bed.
Thanks to those chuckar hunters who took the time to help a couple of strangers.
A Garmin Inreach is in my future. Our wives and kids were worried. My daughter had notified the sheriffs office. Im not sure what all my wife and daughter told the deputies, but one told my wife he would like to hang out with me sometime.
Haha.

Arkansas Combine Trap. Always in the middle of a field with no winch anchor. Dig a hole, bury a tire, tie off, winch your ass out.

Not a bar ditch, but a big damn snowdrift!.
Me and my buddies were out drifting in The Old Man’s Scout one evening.
Drifting for you southerners is where you take a 4 wheel drive out, and try to (actually not to😀) get stuck in a snowdrift. You hopefully hit it with enough speed to carry you through.
It’s fun if you have a couple of friends and a couple of shovels!😀
We were out an a ridge, running through drifts, and I forgot where I was at, trying to climb a bank.
It looked like a straight grade, and it is in most places, but I got halfway up the bank and the ground fell away.
I sank that freakin Scout up to the door handles!🤬 There was no way that the 3 of us were gonna shovel our way outta this hole. Those guys were ready to kill me!😆 💀
Not having a winch, we walked to my cousins house and got him to come rescue us with a tractor!😀
The Old Man never found out!
Reon

Kinda like this…

The old VFW had a rock the size of a big SUV on the edge of the parking lot. You couldn’t miss it, freaking thing was huge.
But The Old Man had a couple more than he should have and forgot that rock was there.
He tore the bumper and the taillight housing clean of a 77 Cordoba!
I was only a teenager, had just got my license. I was smart enough to not ask him
what happened, Dave wasn’t!🤬
Reon

The bar ditch is just this side of the bobwire.

I see you been there and done that too😀!!&

don't think I have ever seen one that shallow, 2 to 6' more like it...bob

That road south of Scobey is particularly unforgiving of such behavior.

These were known as "borrow ditches" in ancient times - like the '50's and '60's.

Barrow ditch. Most around here pronounce it bar ditch

More than once.

I’m in the Big Dave crowd on the definition. They borrowed dirt from an adjacent field to build the roadbed up. Borrow pit became barpit. Especially true in the flat land of the Mississippi Delta. Some even have good fishing in them.