The invention discloses a rotary arm milling machine for a coal mining roadway. The rotary arm milling machine includes a walking chassis, a rotating table, a rotation mechanism, a suspension arm anda cutting part. The rotary arm milling machine has the advantages that 1, remote control can be achieved through a remote controller to achieve man-machine separation, the visibility of a cutting surface during work is good, no dead area exists, and the operation is facilitated; 2, through a sliding cylinder of a sliding rail and a sliding cylinder of the rotary table, the movement of the suspension arm and the cutting part on a sliding saddle in the front and rear directions and the left and right directions can be controlled, the distance is adjusted without moving a vehicle, and the operation efficiency is improved; 3, personnel can operate remotely, and the potential safety hazards are reduced; 4, the whole cutting part can penetrate into an operation surface, no cutting dead angle exists, and the rotary arm milling machine is suitable for slotting engineering work; and 5, an intermediate base material can be cut off by using cutting teeth on a cover plate chain, the cutting part does not need to swing from side to side, equipment is not prone to being damaged, the cutting efficiency is high, cutting teeth are arranged on the cover plate chain of the cutting part and a cuttingroller, the cutting part can penetrate directly into the cutting surface, the cutting depth can be formed in one time, and the cross section is smooth.