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Originally Posted by dad911

If you feel like digging, and need water in the winter at the barns, there is a barn hose connection that gets the valve below the frost line. Called a yard hydrant. https://www.supplyhouse.com/Woodford-Y34-3-Model-Y34-3-4-FPT-Non-Freeze-Iowa-Yard-Hydrant-3-Ft-Burial-Depth?gclid=CjwKCAiAm-2BBhANEiwAe7eyFK-rxR-h36q8TurNsDlBVcFAVkvaPQ1EUeIOGzeHnSp1AWmsF-GcXhoCWXAQAvD_BwE

If you don't need water at the barn(s) in the winter, make an adapter from an airline/compressor to a hose connection, and blow out the lines in the fall.

I've stopped guessing why with previous owners. Could be they had a T and a valve laying around, and not an elbow.

We just demoed a house where they tapped the actual water main between the house and the street, and ran a garden hose under ground (bypassing the meter) to the side yard.

You guys get creative plumbing out east too? I thought its a west coast thing to find the creative type. We don't have too many creative plumbing here, but a ton of serious creative electrical work we have torn apart over the years. Almost every old house we come across have some type of unacceptable electrical work.