The invention relates to the field of equipment manufacture, in particular to a beating roller for a defoliator. The beating roller comprises a belt pulley end shaft, beating roller end covers, a separating cutter cutterhead, beating cutter cutterheads, a roller, a beating cutter and a locating pin. The belt pulley end shaft is located at the front end of the integral beating roller, and the tail end of the belt pulley end shaft is inserted in the center of the beating roller end covers. The beating cutter cutterheads and the separating cutter cutterhead sleeve the roller in sequence, the cutter locating pin fixes the tail of the beating cutter between the two beating cutter cutterheads, and the number of pull rods is six. The pull rods and the roller parallelly penetrate the beating cutter cutterheads and a separating cutter cutterhead sleeve, the two ends of the pull rods and the two ends of the roller are fastened between the front beating roller end cover and the rear beating roller end cover, and the end shaft is located at the tail end of the beating roller. The beating roller is simple and practical, the cutterhead type beating cutter is convenient to dismantle, the beating cutter is stable and does not shake easily, a fixed pin does not break easily, the beating cutter replacing time is short, and the leaf beating line throughput is improved.