the good old days.

rustred · Nov 27, 2022

i saw this picture and my answer was yes without thinking. thats the way we drank water , had a dipper in the pail of well water that was hauled up from the well by a rope and pulley.no glasses no cup just dip and drink. how many others did it this way? only thing is that pail sure looks clean. ours was brown from rust, thats why i am not short of iron.

Janicholson · Nov 27, 2022

The cup was on a nail in the house siding next to the hose faucet. The well was 25 ft away. 90ft hammered down casing with a sand point. We always threw out the last 1/2 oz of water in case it had trash in it from the cup being open to the sky. We never thought of rinsing the cup ahead, just a brief look. Plenty of iron in ours as well. Jim

Bruce from Can. · Nov 27, 2022

We always had an enameled tin cup that hung on a nail in the pump house. Hand pump had been converted to a pump jack

rustred · Nov 27, 2022

nice, this was from a hand dug well, i would say at least 4x4 square with wooden cribbing about 80-100 ft from the house. we used to keep the cream and meat down there also, that was the fridge. that was on a rope and pulley also. i remember looking down that well and thinking man that is deep. probably 12 ft or so to water. i also remember the neighbor had the same well and dad and him pumped it out and were standing on the bottom cleaning it out. kinda scared me , i was small and thinking if that ever collapsed.

wjytexas · Nov 27, 2022

not at home but on some of the farms where I worked

johnofnewhaven · Nov 27, 2022

We had running water inside from a well but had 3 hand pump wells on our farm also. There was always a cup hanging on the hand pump wells. Remember getting drinks from them all the time growing up. We also had indoor bathrooms but also 2 outhouses and we used them too.

flying belgian · Nov 27, 2022

Ours was by the faucet on the house. Dump the first cupful out to rince the bugs out then drink the next one.

Goose · Nov 27, 2022

Yep.

Had a pump and a windmill on a well about 60 to 79 feet from the house. Carried water in a bucket full at and time and set in on a cabinet inside the kitchen door. Kept a dipper in the bucket.

Tony in SD · Nov 28, 2022

Yes I did and I still have our dipper that is almost a match to the one pictured.

M-MAN · Nov 28, 2022

Yep. Growing up that's all we had. Took a lot of cranking come wash day.

Stroby · Nov 28, 2022

Yup, been there, done that. Not aware of any health issues as the result either.

caterpillar guy · Nov 28, 2022

Had a porcelain coated cup on a nail in the well house. everybody there drank from it. Would rinse out first for dust from driveway was right beside the well house. Had a handle to a valve down in the well pit. Another handle to shut off the water to the barn for the winter if needed.

Two Dogs · Nov 28, 2022

It was always more fun to just tip the bucket and get a face and chest full and maybe a mouth full all at the same time. If we wanted to be dainty we would use the long handle gourd. TDF

Jim in NC · Nov 28, 2022

I hung a dipper at our well house in 1978 when we moved here. The dipper and we are still here, and it gets used occasionally. Back in time on tobacco barning days many different folks used it, and most everybody rinsed it before drinking after another person.

504 · Nov 28, 2022

A tin cup hung from about every bodys pump when I was a kid. Gem pumps were everywhere

jdr1943 · Nov 28, 2022

An old gentleman lived close to us it was about seven miles to town he walked never owned a car he new where every spring was on the way to town had a gourd hanging at every spring would stop and clean the leaves out and have a drink going and coming from town.

sms · Nov 28, 2022

Was always an enamel cup at the trough at grandpa's. Very good spring water. Many people stopped for water. Dad was a logger and Sawyer. We drank a lot of crick and spring water growing up.

Peat · Nov 28, 2022

My Little League coach used to bring a ladle and galvanized water bucket for the team to drink water from.
Wouldnt see that today.

730virgil · Nov 28, 2022

we had a tin cup on wire next to barn door

GordoSD · Nov 29, 2022

We had a gray spakled paint cup hangin on the widmill. Pull the wood handle down to engage the fan. Water in less than 1 minute.

the good old days.

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