PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a root vegetable digging and collecting machine that is raised upward when a working vehicle rotates at the end of a ridge and in which root vegetables stored in a conveying device do not fall from the front side of the conveying device even when the root vegetable digging and collecting machine is in a forward downward inclined attitude.SOLUTION: In the root vegetable digging and collecting machine that is equipped with a digging and collecting member 26 for digging root vegetables from a field, the conveying device 32 for conveying root vegetables dug and collected at the rear part of the digging and collecting member 26, and an unloading device 57 that receives root vegetables at the rear part of the conveying device 32 and unloads the root vegetables to a field in an direction outside a machine body outside, the machine is equipped with a partition member 43 for preventing root vegetables from falling on the conveying start side of the conveying device 32 in a switchable manner from a fall prevention action state to a storage state, and a switching device 46 for switching the dividing member 43 from a fall prevention action state to a storage state.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】畝端で作業車両が旋回する際に上方に持ち上げられ、前下がり傾斜姿勢になっても搬送装置内に留まっている根菜が搬送装置前側から落下しない根菜掘取機を提供することを課題とする。【解決手段】圃場から根菜を掘り取る掘取部材26を設け、掘取部材26の後部に掘り取った根菜を後方に搬送する搬送装置32を設けると共に、搬送装置32の後部に根菜を受けて機体外側方向の圃場に根菜を排出する排出装置57を設けた根菜掘取機において、搬送装置32の搬送始端側に根菜落下防止用の仕切部材43を落下防止作用状態と収納状態とに切替自在に設けると共に、仕切部材43を落下防止作用状態と収納状態とに切り替える切替装置46を設けて構成する。【選択図】 図3
