I have hoses stretched across my pasture and back yard to fill the water where the pig pen was going to be and once it's been filled/pressurized the weight carries it down to ground level and the grass and weeds grow up around it. I run the mower right over it with no issues whatever. Of course it has to be a straight run with no loops or kinks that would lift it up into harms way... and I can't mow close at either end where it lifts to the spigot and to the end hanger. Though I agree, a buried pipe would be very beneficial in the long run including being able to use it in the winter months (buried below frost line and with a no freeze riser in the barn area).