HARVESTER FOR ROOT VEGETABLES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a harvester effectively useful for mechanically harvesting root vegetables cultivated in a mulched ridge. SOLUTION: A nipping and raising transportation apparatus 12 which nips leaves and stems Wb projecting from planting holes of a mulch sheet F applied to a ridge and transports the leaves and stems obliquely upward to the rear is arranged slantingly from the vicinity of the ground upward to the rear. A leaf cutting apparatus 60 is installed in the vicinity of the lower side of a starting part in the nipping and raising transportation apparatus 12 and a rise control part which receives and controls a root vegetable main body Wa at its leaf cutting part is laid.