Patent ID: 8851224

Claim:
A work vehicle comprising: a vehicle frame; an engine mounted on the vehicle frame; a supporting mechanism fixed to the vehicle frame; a diesel particulate filtering device mounted on the supporting mechanism above the engine and disposed so that an exhaust gas flows through an inside of the diesel particulate filtering device in a crosswise direction of the vehicle, the diesel particulate filtering device having an exhaust gas inlet facing rearward on one side in the crosswise direction of the vehicle; and a connecting pipe including an upstream side pipe of which an exhaust upstream side end part is coupled to an exhaust part of the engine and a downstream side pipe of which an exhaust downstream side end part is connected to an exhaust gas inlet of the diesel particulate filtering device from a rear, the upstream side pipe including a linear extending part disposed below the diesel particulate filtering device and beside the engine on the same side as the exhaust gas inlet is provided, the extending part extending from the exhaust upstream side end part passing the diesel particulate filtering device to the rear in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, a flexible pipe part being provided in the extending part, and a bend part bending upward from a rear end part of the extending part, the downstream side pipe including a first pipe part of which an exhaust downstream side end part is coupled to the exhaust gas inlet of the diesel particulate filtering device and extends rearward, and a second pipe part having a certain angle with respect to the first pipe part and provided between an exhaust upstream side of the first pipe part and an exhaust downstream side of the bend part of the upstream side pipe.