Kubota? Mini Excavator, can anyone ID?

[vectorox]

I picked this up a few days ago. It was found in a shipping container on a property where the owner had died. The place was being cleaned up ready for auction, so no one knew anything about it. Searching through pictures online it looks quite similar to some Kubotas, but I cant find anything exactly the same. There's no nameplates or identifying labels I can see. It has a Perkins 3 cylinder diesel engine, mounted with the radiator on the right-hand side.

 

[ptsg]

Well, if it doesn't have a Kubota engine, you can pretty much rule Kubota out.

Looks like an old Komatsu PC05 to me.

 

[ptsg]

Here is a picture of a PC05-6:

 

[fried1765]

Here is a picture of a PC05-6:

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VERY similar!
Note that the blade is on the opposite end of the track system.

 

[ptsg]

VERY similar!
Note that the blade is on the opposite end of the track system.

That's because the picture I uploaded is from an Australian machinery dealer.

 

[vectorox]

That's it! Well done.

 

[fried1765]

That's because the picture I uploaded is from an Australian machinery dealer.

Of course!
I should have considered that possibility!