RICE TRANSPLANTER

PURPOSE: To obtain a rice transplanter capable of readily dividing an operation shaft arranged in the lateral direction of a seedling transplanting device in dividedly housing the seedling transplanting device. CONSTITUTION: This rice transplanter is equipped with a seedling transplanting device constituted separably at the middle position in the right and left direction and a housing means which sends the outer end parts of divided materials in the lateral direction to the front side of a traveling machine body by change of position of the divided materials and moves the divided materials to the central position side in the right and left direction of the traveling machine body. The rice transplanter is provided with a handling tool N which revolves an operation shaft M attached in a lateral position to the seedling transplanting device around the center of a shaft, changes a connecting member 58 into a divided position by operation of the handling tool N to a non-rotating direction and permits the division of the operation shaft.