To allow a worker to conduct a work without an unpleasant backpacking feeling when the worker holds an operation rod while the operation rod is tilted with respect to a working face in a backpack type working machine that transmits power from a motor to a working part through a flexible shaft. Provided is a backpack type working machine 1 in which a motor 3 is installed in a frame 2 for backpack and power of the motor 3 is transmitted to a working part 6 provided in a front end part of an operation rod 5 through a flexible shaft 4, wherein a base end part 4A of the flexible shaft 4 is rotatably joined to an output shaft of the motor 3, and a face formed by the rotation of the base end part 4A is tilted with respect to a working face of the working part 6.
