PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transplanter capable of forming a desired depth of hole around a planted seedling even when culture soil of a field is hard.SOLUTION: The transplanter includes: a travelling part 14 for travelling a machine body a planting tool 28 for planting an object to be transplanted by opening and closing a downward leading end a hole-making body 110 having a shape of spreading right and left toward rear side for making a hole at a position of the field to which the planting tool plants the object to be transplanted by vertical motion and a cutting plate 153 provided in front of the hole-making body and forming a cut in front of the hole made by the hole-making body by plunging into the field. The cutting plate forms a cut in front of the hole made by the hole-making body by plunging into a part of the field.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】圃場培土が硬い場合でも、植え付けた苗の周囲に所望の深さの穴を形成できる移植機を提供する。【解決手段】機体を走行させる走行部14と、機体に設けられ、下向きの先端が開閉して移植対象物を植え付ける植付具28と、後方に向かって左右に広がる形状を有し、上下動することにより、植付具が移植対象物を植え付ける圃場の位置に穴を作る作穴体110と、作穴体の前方に設けられ、圃場に突入して作穴体が作る穴の前方に切り込みを形成する切り板153とを備える。切り板は、一部が圃場に突入して作穴体が作る穴の前方に切り込みを形成する。【選択図】図26