Kubota Mini Excavator Sales
The Kubota KX033 mini excavators replaced the prior model, the KX91, and it has a bunch of improvements. The KX91 has, however, been a really popular mini excavator for contractors.
Heavy equipment dealers stock Kubota mini excavators for customers and for their rental fleets. One of the things that's made this machine so popular is that this is the heaviest Kubota excavator that can fit onto a 10,000 pound trailer. By buying the version that does not have a cab and a manual angle blade down here on the bottom you can comfortably fit onto a 10K trailer depending on what your local regulations are. For some contractors that keeps them out of the requirements for CDLs and all kinds of additional regulations that they'd have to worry about.
A lot of these Kubota mini excavator models go into rental industries, rental fleets, to landscaping customers who need a good capable machine that's not a headache to trailer around. No dump trucks required here. Kubota seems to be making a lot better use of the engine compartment space on this machine as well. You’ll notice in the old model KX91 the space up in the front corner that was a dead, unused space. On the new model, the hood now hinges differently, incorporating that space into the engine compartment, allowing more space for the pieces that need to be back here, specifically the battery. The battery now sits right back here at the side of the machine. If you ever need to jump or replace this thing there's no telling how it could be easier. The excavator's battery is easily accessible.
If you pay much attention to the equipment industry you’ll notice that a lot of models are being redesigned and changed to meet current emission standards. Once you cross 26 horsepower, useful particulate filters are required to capture this filter on the backside of the engine. The KX91 came in at 28 horsepower. When Kubota updated this model, rather than taking the horsepower up or adding a DPF to it, they simply took the horsepower down a little bit. While this was 28, the current model is 26, so it dropped down just two horsepower. This machine is not less powerful because of that. It has a more capable hydraulic system.
You’ll notice that the breakout force for the bucket and the boom both took a small bump. In addition to that, additional hydraulic output on the auxiliaries that we had. Even though we’ve got a little bit less horsepower, that heavier hydraulic system is making this mini excavator actually more powerful or more productive than the prior model. When you look around the engine compartment, you really quickly pick up on a lot of changes that Kubota made to make this machine a lot easier to service.
The amount of space that is available back in the engine compartment and the location of the filters and checkpoints are a lot more convenient on the new model than they were on the old. If you look down in the engine compartment of the new machine all the filters and your checkpoints are conveniently located at the back of the machine. Your engine oil filters down below, air filter up at the top, fuel filter right at the rear, fuel water separator right at the side, dip sticks right back at the rear and your checkpoints or your hydraulic reservoir are right around the side. That compares much better to the old Kubota kx 91 model which was right around the side. That compares much better to the older Kubota, in terms of accessibility. While a lot of those things aren’t exactly buried back there, the KX91 engine compartment is a lot more cluttered and a lot harder to get your hands into than what the old model was. The engine oil filter in particular on this machine has to be changed from the bottom down below, whereas on the newer one you can reach it right from the back very easily.
Some dramatic improvements in the serviceability around the engine compartment can easily be appreciated. The design of Kubota's valve stacks is a case in point. If you’ve looked at the last series of the SSV's and the SVL's the routing that is done of the hoses and the pilots have taken a leap forward over older generations machines. Considering the valve stack on this machine, the pilot hoses which come off the side all route down underneath and then come back up in the operator's platform. On the new Kubota these things are laid out nicely to service, they are situated on the side and are configured well. It's well laid out and easy to get at. When things inevitably start to leak after years and thousands of hours on them, this Kubota model excavator likely should be very easy to maintain.
One of the main things that you notice that’s coming out now are these diverters that are being put on the end of the boom. On the old model, if you wanted to go and put a thumb onto this machine you could plumb that foam right up to here to a coupler. Put your thumb down here on the end, but if you want to swap that thumb out for, say, a hammer you then needed to pull your couplers out, let them dangle or try to tie them up out of the way somewhere. Now with the newer machines they are putting these diverters down here on the end so that if you put your thumb on and you want to remove your thumb and put on a breaker or something on the end, you have two sets of couplers here that you can use. Simply putting a wrench here and twisting this from one side to the other will shut the thumb off and then allow you to use that breaker.
Kubota has a lot of experience designing track frames. If you look across the equipment that they've built you’ll see a lot of the same features from one machine to the next. In this case now, the new machine has four body rollers sitting on the left on the right hand side of the track in order to distribute the weight of the machine, where the old one had three. You’ll notice also too on all of Kubota track frames, typically left and right rollers across the middle to distribute weight, but single rollers in the front and the back, so that when you go to turn it gives you a single point of contact to hopefully pivot the machine around a little bit easier.
These are also greaseless lobbies down in the track frames so that there's nothing to maintain. If there's a need to tension the track further, a grease circle is just beneath the cover. The tops of these track frames are always angled so that dirt doesn’t collect up underneath the track. They're angled so the dirt will fall off back onto the ground again. A couple more small improvements, mostly in the addition of additional body rollers to help distribute the weight of the machine across the track a little bit better.
Looking at the excavator cab model in this series points out that several changes have been made there as well. Comparing this new cab with that of the prior Kubota model KX91 it's clear that they didn’t have room for the air conditioner condenser beneath the machine covers. Looking at all the improvements within the engine compartment that have happened in there, one of the enhancements was that enough space is now provided under the hood so that the condenser fits nicely and is therefore readily accessed. So, with the factory cab on it, this new model Kubota excavator allows the operator to have a better field of view without the air conditioner condenser mounted on the side of the cab.
In addition to that, there are also some improvements to the control sticks where your foot pedals sit down on the bottom and it's realignment of the space for the operators platform making a little bit more room for your feet. The roll-up window is also redesigned. It travels a little bit nicer than what the old one did, and it also received all the updates to the instrument clusters on the side that the rest of the KX series have received as well.
Some modernization of the control pods give you a little bit more information about the operating condition of the machine. Kubota has really taken the KX91 to a leap forward here in the new KX033. When first looking at the spec sheets and the changes, not much of the new mini excavator's capabilities jump out, but having these two excavators side by side it’s obvious. Kubota has made a lot of refinements and improvements to this new mini excavator, the KX033.
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