PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hand-operated weeding machine requiring less time for maintenance/checking and causing less failure by reducing the clogging of an air intake side filter and the invasion of foreign materials into a carburetor.SOLUTION: This hand-operated weeding machine is provided by constituting so that the free end side sucking port 21 of a flexible sucking tube 2 is kept away from a rotary mowing part 5 or a rotary grass-pulling out claw part by attaching/installing the flexible sucking tube 2 as an extended state from an air inlet side cover 30 of an engine unit 3.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】吸気側フィルタの目詰まりやキャブレータへの異物の浸入を軽減して、保守点検の手間や、故障の発生が少ない手動運行草処理機を提供する。【解決手段】エンジンユニット3の吸気側カバー30から、フレキシブル吸込管2を延伸状に付設して、回転草刈部5又は回転草引抜き爪部からフレキシブル吸込管2の自由端側吸込口21を遠ざけるように構成した。【選択図】図1