PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To readily unload a container for harvesting root vegetables from a loading platform in a root vegetable harvester.SOLUTION: A pair of left and right traveling apparatuses (2) are installed in the lower part of a traveling machine body (1) and a pulling-out and conveying apparatuses (11) for pulling out a root vegetable while gripping foliage part of the root vegetable and conveying the root vegetable to the rear are installed on one side of left and right of the traveling machine body (1) and a root vegetable-conveying apparatus (16) for receiving root part of the root vegetable cut halfway during conveyance of the pulling-out and conveying apparatus (11) and conveying the root vegetable to other side of left and right of the traveling machine body (1) is installed. A loading platform (19) for placing a root vegetable storage container is installed below the final end side of the root vegetable conveying apparatus (16) and the loading platform (19) is constituted so as to be tiltable in longitudinal or left or right direction which is a traveling direction of the traveling machine body (1).COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT【課題】根菜収穫機において荷台から根菜の収穫容器を楽に取り降ろす。【解決手段】走行機体(1)の下部に左右一対の走行装置(2,2)を設け、走行機体(1)の左右一側に根菜の茎葉部を挟持して引き抜き後方に搬送する引抜き搬送装置(11,11)を設け、引抜き搬送装置(11,11)の搬送途中の切断された根菜の根部を引き継いで走行機体(1)の左右他側に搬送する根菜搬送装置(16)を設ける。根菜搬送装置(16)の終端側下方には、根菜収納容器載置用の荷台(19)を設け、この荷台(19)を走行機体(1)の走行方向である前後あるいは左右方向に傾動可能に構成する。【選択図】図1