PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hand hold member in a walking-type work machine, without imposing a burden on a base end of a foldable handle.SOLUTION: A walking-type work machine includes: a handle post 51 that is fixed to a machine body frame 1 an operating handle 5 that is supported on the rear part of the handle post 51 in such a manner as to be swingable between the forward swinging attitude of being elongated to the front side of the machine body frame 1 and the backward swinging attitude of being elongated backward from the handle post 51 and a hand hold member 7b that is fixed to the rear part of the handle post 51.
