PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vegetable harvester which can surely cut the tails of vegetables with a tail cutter having a simple structure.SOLUTION: This vegetable harvester having a holding conveyer (4) for nipping the foliages of crops taken out from a field and upward conveying the crops in hung postures, and a tail cutter (4a) for cutting the tails of the crops in the hung postures below the nipping conveyer (4), and capable of traveling and harvesting the crops is characterized in that the tail cutter (4a) comprises a peripheral cutting edge (12) capable of being rotated on a lateral shaft and a guide plate (13) in which guide routes (13s) for guiding the tails to the action region of the peripheral cutting edge (12) are formed, and the guide routes (13s) of the guide plate (13) have oblique portions (13t) extended in an oblique direction to the carrying direction of the holding conveyer (4).COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT【課題】簡易な構成の尻尾切断装置により、確実に尻尾を切断することができる野菜収穫機を提供する。【解決手段】野菜収穫機は、圃場から取出した作物の茎葉を挟持して吊下げ姿勢で作物を上昇搬送する挟持搬送装置(4)と、この挟持搬送装置(4)の下方で吊下げ姿勢の作物の尻尾を切断する尻尾切断装置(4a)とを備えて作物を収穫走行可能に構成され、上記尻尾切断装置(4a)は、横軸回転動作する外周刃(12)と、この外周刃(12)の作用領域まで尻尾を案内する案内路(13s)を形成したガイド板(13)とからなり、このガイド板(13)の案内路(13s)は、挟持搬送装置(4)の搬送方向に対して斜め方向に延びる斜行部(13t)を備えるものである。【選択図】図4
