COMBINE HARVESTER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a combine harvester decreased in operational troublesomeness, simple in structure, and enabled to restrict in lowering turn around a horizontal shaft of a reaping device and careless opening/shutting turn around the vertical shaft in opening/closing operation. SOLUTION: The combine harvester includes a reaping device set around a horizontal shaft 16 at the front part of a running body so as to be able to raise, fall and rotate, and a falling restriction element 315 restricting falling rotation of the reaping device. The reaping device is composed to be opened and rotated to the horizontal outside around a vertical shaft 300 positioned at the front left side of the running body 1. The falling restriction element 315 is connected to a front and rear longitudinal reaping vertical frame 18 of the reaping device and the running body 1. The reaping device is composed to be raised and rotated on the way of closing and opening rotation of the reaping device due to the presence of the falling restriction element 315. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT