The invention relates to a sweet potato
seedling harvester and a harvesting method. The sweet potato
seedling harvester comprises a profiling
seedling picking device, a flexible clamping,
cutting and conveying device, a broken film precise recognition and flaming removal device on a rear rack, a secondary conveying device for vibration
impurity removal, a
ton bag seedling collecting and recycling device at the rear end of the rear rack, and a
chassis walking device installed between a front rack and the rear rack. When the sweet potato harvester is used, the sweet potato harvester walks and works in a field through the
chassis walking device, and sweet potato seedlings on the
ridge surface and the
ridge side are picked up and sent to the flexible clamping,
cutting and conveying device through the profiling seedling picking device; the flexible clamping,
cutting and conveying device is used for cutting the roots of sweet potato seedlings, continuously conveying the sweet potato seedlings to the broken film accurate identification and flaming removal device, identifying and burning off mulching films wound on the sweet potato seedlings, the vibration
impurity removal secondary conveying device is used for removing soil and impurities through vibration shaking, and finally, the
ton bag seedling collection and
recovery device is used for recovering the sweet potato seedlings.