Sitting in the 1-ton range, Kubota’s all-new U10-5 mini excavator offers nearly zero tail swing – just half an inch over the tracks – a retractable undercarriage, class-leading breakout force and greater dig depth and reach.
The petite 2,646-pound workhorse made its debut at World of Concrete in Las Vegas.
“This is a great machine for working alongside a single lane of traffic, between homes or along a fence line,” says Patrick Baker, construction equipment product manager, Kubota. “You can easily fit in very confined, tight working spaces.”
The ultra-compact machine is well-suited for rental, landscape, commercial construction, residential construction and utility construction, the manufacturer says.
Hydraulic adjustable tracks can shift from 30 to 39 inches to get into narrow spaces and optimize digging performance.
“If you’re going to be doing a lot of dirt work, we recommend widening those tracks out, putting the dozer blade down and digging it out,” says Baker. “The dozer blade does also extend out. You can do a little bit of fine grading and backfilling. The blade goes a long way and sometimes gets forgotten, but it’s another very handy tool for those owner-operators.”
