The Halligan Bar being used to anchor a ground-placed master stream. Because of the backwards force they produce while operating, these devices can creep and must be securely anchored.

The Halligan Bar can be used to help create an anchor point for high-angle rescue when no others are available. In this evolution, the Halligan Bars were inserted into the middle of the lengths of webbing and rotated several times to remove the slack between the other picket components, and then driven into the ground.