Specification sheetIssued 4 November 2026
Kubota · mini excavator
Kubota U17
Kubota U17-3 (canopy, rubber tracks, Kubota D902-E3) per Kubota Australia brochure 8907E-01-AA (2025); sold in North America as the U17 with the D902-E4 Final Tier 4 engine. No Gulf sheet found.
USAGlobal
- digging depth
- 2.31 m
- power
- 11.6 kW (15.1 HP)
- Operating weight
- 1,675 kg
- Overall length
- 3.545 m
- Overall height (to top of cab)
- 2.34 m
- Track length on ground
- 1.23 m
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Dimensions
- Overall width
- 0.99 m
- Ground clearance (minimum)
- 0.15 m
- Track length (crawler length)
- 1.585 m
- Shoe width (rubber track)
- 0.23 m
Performance
- AMax digging height
- 3.54 m
- BMax dumping height
- 2.44 m
- CMax digging depth
- 2.31 m
- DMax vertical digging depth
- 1.68 m
- EMax reach at ground level
- 3.84 m
- FMax digging reach
- 3.9 m
- GMin turning radius (front swing radius without boom swing)
- 1.44 m
- Min turning radius (boom swung) (front swing radius with boom swing)
- 1.215 m
- HMin tail swing radius
- 0.62 m
- Bucket digging force (max breakout force, bucket)
- 1,534 kgf
- Arm digging force (max breakout force, arm)
- 867 kgf
- Swing speed
- 9.1 rpm
- Boom swing
- 65 deg. left / 58 deg. right
- Travel speed (high)
- 4.1 km/h
- Travel speed (low)
- 2.1 km/h
- Max drawbar pull
- 2,207 kgf
- Ground pressure
- 0.27 kgf/cm2
Weight
- Operating weight
- 1,675 kg
Engine
- Engine model
- Kubota D902-E3
- Displacement (898 cc)
- 0.9 L
- Gross power (SAE J1995, at 2,300 rpm)
- 12 kW (16.1 HP)
- Net power (SAE J1349, at 2,300 rpm)
- 11.6 kW (15.1 HP)
Hydraulics
- Pump flow
- 17.3 L/min x 2 + 10.4 L/min x 1
- Auxiliary flow
- 28 L/min
Blade
- Blade width (extended; 0.99 m retracted)
- 1.24 m
- Blade height
- 0.26 m
- Max blade lift above ground
- 0.28 m
- Max blade drop below ground
- 0.19 m
Service capacities
- Hydraulic tank
- 13 L
- Hydraulic system, with tank
- 23 L
- Fuel tank
- 19 L