Provided is work equipment having a battery powered container device that can be detached from a work equipment main body and can travel by itself wherein the detached container device can be prevented from becoming unable to be reunited with the power equipment main body due to an insufficient state of charge of the battery. The work equipment (10) can temporarily store an article that is collected while traveling, and comprises a work equipment main body (20), a container device (70) configured to store the article collected by the work equipment main body while being connected to the work equipment main body, and to travel to and back from a collected article destination (202) by being detached from the work equipment main body, a travel drive unit (80) configured to cause the container device to travel, a battery (112) mounted to the container device to power the travel drive unit, a battery state of charge sensor (114) configured to detect a remaining battery charge of the battery, and a control unit (54, 104) configured to perform determination of whether the container device may be detached from the work equipment main body or not according to the remaining battery charge.
