You're in a pickle. Renting isn't cheap. About $450 a day by me, but you're talking 15 acres, so maybe it wouldn't add up too badly. Ford N's are kind of small, but I had a friend that had one with a backhoe and a loader on it, and he used them both in a mobile home park that he owned for laying sewage tile and other stuff, so I can guarantee you that an N can do it, but it wouldn't be my choice if say I planned on getting in that kind of work for a living...for that I'd go a Case C series, and that's mega $$$, but you aren't planning on contractor work, just around the homestead. By the time you invest in a used backhoe to mount on that thing, and the hydraulics to make it work, and if you mount and hook it up yourself, none of which is going to be easy, it'll probably cost you a lot less to rent a ditchwitch. Its your money and time though.
Do yourself a real big favor, because ditchwitch's aint got no problem what so ever going though water or gas pipes, buried electric or telephone, just make sure that you're clear on all of that stuff, because, well, your day could end very expensive or far worse. A couple few years ago, a couple of miles from me over in Union, MI at Tharpe Lake Rd and US12, a young apprentice fella was backhoing in a farm field where they were going to put up a barn, and he left an expecting to be a mother young bride as a widow. Was the biggest dang instant hole in the ground I ever seen in the middle of a farm field when he hit that gas main, bigger than the barn they finally put up. Shook houses for miles and miles and miles. Mighty big hole. Hold on a minute, I'll go google and see if I can find a picture of that. Yep, I found a picture of it. Man, that was a pretty big hole.
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