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
- 7.6 ft
- power
- 15.1 HP
- Operating weight
- 3,693 lb
- Overall length
- 11.6 ft
- Overall height (to top of cab)
- 7.7 ft
- Track length on ground
- 4 ft
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Dimensions
- Overall width
- 3.2 ft
- Ground clearance (minimum)
- 0.5 ft
- Track length (crawler length)
- 5.2 ft
- Shoe width (rubber track)
- 0.8 ft
Performance
- AMax digging height
- 11.6 ft
- BMax dumping height
- 8 ft
- CMax digging depth
- 7.6 ft
- DMax vertical digging depth
- 5.5 ft
- EMax reach at ground level
- 12.6 ft
- FMax digging reach
- 12.8 ft
- GMin turning radius (front swing radius without boom swing)
- 4.7 ft
- Min turning radius (boom swung) (front swing radius with boom swing)
- 4 ft
- HMin tail swing radius
- 2 ft
- Bucket digging force (max breakout force, bucket)
- 3,382 lbf
- Arm digging force (max breakout force, arm)
- 1,911 lbf
- Swing speed
- 9.1 rpm
- Boom swing
- 65 deg. left / 58 deg. right
- Travel speed (high)
- 2.5 mph
- Travel speed (low)
- 1.3 mph
- Max drawbar pull
- 4,866 lbf
- Ground pressure
- 0.27 kgf/cm2
Weight
- Operating weight
- 3,693 lb
Engine
- Engine model
- Kubota D902-E3
- Displacement (898 cc)
- 0.2 US gal
- Gross power (SAE J1995, at 2,300 rpm)
- 16.1 HP
- Net power (SAE J1349, at 2,300 rpm)
- 15.1 HP
Hydraulics
- Pump flow
- 17.3 L/min x 2 + 10.4 L/min x 1
- Auxiliary flow
- 7.3 US gpm
Blade
- Blade width (extended; 0.99 m retracted)
- 4.1 ft
- Blade height
- 0.9 ft
- Max blade lift above ground
- 0.9 ft
- Max blade drop below ground
- 0.6 ft
Service capacities
- Hydraulic tank
- 3.4 US gal
- Hydraulic system, with tank
- 6.1 US gal
- Fuel tank
- 5 US gal