Patent ID: 6883634

Claim:
A tractor comprising: a traveling vehicle body having a pair of front wheels 19 and a pair of rear wheels 11 ; an engine 2 that is mounted at the front portion of said traveling vehicle body and has an output shaft 2 a; a transmission case 3 that is disposed at the rear portion of the traveling vehicle body and houses a transmission including an input shaft 5 and a front wheel driving shaft 13 ; a first universal joint 6 joining the output shaft 2 a of the engine 2 and the input shaft 5 of the transmission case 3 ; a work machine 24 loaded between the front wheels 19 and the rear wheels 11 in a manner enabling it to rise and fall; a front axle housing 14 supporting the pair of front wheels 19 ; a front wheel traveling input shaft 15 provided so as to project upward to the horizontal direction at the rear portion of the front axle housing 14 ; and a second universal joint 17 joining the front wheel traveling input shaft 15 and the front wheel driving shaft 13 projecting from the transmission case 3 .