Ditch Question...

[royalfan5]

In Oklahoma what do you call the ditches along side county roads? In Nebrask and parts of Kansas they are grader ditches, in Texas they are bar ditches, and I'm just curious as to what they are in Oklahoma.

[XingTheRubicon]

they're just the ditch. I've heard bar ditch before, however.

[sooner_born_1960]

bar ditch

[Condescending Sooner]

We called them grader ditches.

[picasso]

Dean calls them the lavatory.

[btk108]

yep....bar ditch

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Puppy dumping facilities.

[JohnnyMack]

Dead hooker storage.

[reevie]

I've heard both, maybe bar ditches more often. But I just call them a ditch.

[Breadburner]

Ditch Weed...????

[Spray]

ditches are for bitches

[Rocko]

Dead hooker storage.

I lol'ed

[Crucifax Autumn]

When I was there they were called places to take bacon and string to catch crawdads.

[Okla-homey]

I've heard them referred to as "bar ditch" and "culvert"

[olevetonahill]

Bar ditch
Homey a Culvert is that thing what runs under the road between the Bar ditches

[1890MilesToNorman]

parking spot for drankin drivers.

[olevetonahill]

Beer Can Recyclers :D

The Place fer inmates to work .

[Okla-homey]

Homey a Culvert is that thing what runs under the road between the Bar ditches

usually made of 12" corrogated, galvinized steel pipe right?

[olevetonahill]

usually made of 12" corrogated, galvinized steel pipe right?

That and /or Concrete :)

[OUHOMER]

should have been a poll.

BAR DITCH

[Zbird]

field latrines

[OhU1]

Useless fact of the day, from the web: "The slang term bar ditch supposedly comes from barrow ditch when hand labor and wheelbarrows were used to haul dirt dug from a ditch and dumped into the roadbed to raise it above the surrounding terrain. Another version states dirt borrowed from a ditch and placed on the roadbed gave birth to the term bar ditch."

[Chuck Bao]

Useless fact of the day, from the web: "The slang term bar ditch supposedly comes from barrow ditch when hand labor and wheelbarrows were used to haul dirt dug from a ditch and dumped into the roadbed to raise it above the surrounding terrain. Another version states dirt borrowed from a ditch and placed on the roadbed gave birth to the term bar ditch."

Thanks OhU1. I had wondered about the term and that makes perfect sense. For me, it is definitely a bar ditch.

I wouldn't normally use the term "grader ditch", but what do I know because I am an old country boy. I guess people watching highways being constructed today would use the term.

Anyway, we haven't had a decent county commissioner in my district of the county for a long time, at least one who would send the road grader operators for training.

On my family's gravel road, they do fill in the potholes in the road and smooth it out a bit, but the graders also manage to push all of the gravel into the bar ditches, which were probably constructed 60-80 years ago by manual labor and wheelbarrows. At some places, the gravel in the ditches is as high as the road and ends up channeling the rain run-off down the road. /rant

[Jacie]

At the risk of revealing my country hick roots, the bar ditch was how we referred to the one that ran in front of my childhood home. In the summer it seemed to always have enough water in it to make a nice home for frogs. I must have caught hundreds of tadpoles from it which I would raise to adulthood and release back to the bar ditch.

[SouthFortySooner]

Because I lost a challenge at scrabble, I now know the rise of dirt from the ditch to the road is a berm.