PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a root crop harvester capable of pulling crops, housing the same in a housing container held at a conveying end part of a conveying device and loading and unloading the housing container onto and from a loading platform.SOLUTION: The root crop harvester is constituted by installing a drawing and conveying device 24 for drawing and conveying crops, a first conveyor 87 for conveying the crop by receiving the same from the drawing and conveying device 24 to be vertically and freely turnable, a holding device 110 for holding the housing container 103 at the conveying end part of the first conveyor 87, the loading platform 128 for loading the housing container 103 below the holding device 110, and an elastic member 98 for expanding and contracting by increasing and decreasing the weight of the housing container 103 held by the holding device 110 beside the first conveyor 87, and turning the holding device 110 by expansion and contraction of the elastic member 98 from the position where the housing container 103 is in an inclination posture to the position where the housing container 103 takes a horizontal posture to the loading platform 128, and fixing the posture of the holding device 110 by the elastic member 98 when the holding member 110 takes a horizontal posture to the loading platform 128.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】作物を引き抜いて搬送装置の搬送終端部に保持した収容容器に収容し、収容容器を積載台に積み降ろすことのできる根菜類収穫機を提供する。【解決手段】作物を引抜搬送する引抜搬送装置24を設け、引抜搬送装置24から作物を受けて搬送する第1搬送装置87を上下回動自在に設け、第1搬送装置87の搬送終端部に収容容器103を保持する保持装置110を設け、保持装置110の下方に収容容器103を載せる積載台128を設け、第1搬送装置87の側部に保持装置110が保持する収容容器103の重量の増減により伸縮する伸縮部材98を設け、伸縮部材98の伸縮により保持装置110を収容容器103が傾斜姿勢となる位置から積載台128に対して水平姿勢となる位置まで回動させ、保持部材110が積載台128に対して水平姿勢となると伸縮部材98が保持装置110の姿勢を固定する構成とする。【選択図】 図3
