BINDING MACHINE OPENING DEVICE FOR SELF-TRAVELING THRESHER WITH BINDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the maintainability of an engine and a binding machine itself. SOLUTION: The top of an engine cover is turned to the plant foot side horizontal feed passage of clamped grain culms to be threshed, the binding machine B is installed to the terminating end side of the horizontal feed passage and the binding machine B is made turnable to an outer side part from a binding position. In this case, in the binding machine B, it is preferable that driving power is transmitted from an output pulley 3 pivotally attached to a PTO shaft 2 to the input pulley 4 of the binding machine B through an endless belt 5 and the endless belt 5 is largely slackened by the turning operation to the outer side part of the binding machine B. Also, for the turning to the outer side part of the binding machine B, it is preferable that an input shaft case 6 integrated with the binding machine B is extended to a front part, the input pulley 4 pivotally attached to an input shaft 7 projected to an inner side from the front end part is positioned in front of the output pulley 3 and the binding machine B is made turnable to the outer side part with the vicinity part of the front end part of the input shaft case 6 as a supporting point.