Never had one outdoors like that. Water to the milk house was gravity, cows went out and hauled their own water from the brook.
Water to the house was gravity to the cellar, but it wouldn't run upstairs. The water ran into a wooden barrel in the cellar that supplied water to an electric pump.
There was a hand pump on the sink shelf in the kitchen. Hot and cold running water in the bathroom, hot running water at the kitchen sink, but the cold water came from that pump, whether the power worked or not.
Dad finally had that pump removed when the old black sink was replaced with a white enamel "modern" sink. Mother said that for the next thirty years, she would still count five strokes of the pump before she held a glass under the faucet to get a drink. That was how many strokes it took for the pump to clear the pipe and run cold water.
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