The invention discloses a floating barrel duckbilled lotus root digging machine, which comprises a chassis frame (14), a power water pump room (9), a pump fixing frame (10), a water inlet pipe (7), a high-pressure tube (8) and a high-pressure nozzle (3), and is characterized in that: the lotus root digging machine is provided with left and right sealed floating barrels (1); a working bin (11) is arranged between the left and right sealed floating barrels (1); bottom, front-back and top filtering nets (2, 4 and 16) are welded outside the working bin (11) and between the left and right sealed floating barrels (1); and the chassis frame (14) is welded with the left and right sealed floating barrels (1), the working bin (11), the pump fixing frame (10), an operating frame (6) and a lifting lever (15) into a whole. The lotus root digging machine is novel in structure, light and flexible in complete machine, low in manufacturing cost, easy to operate, high in efficiency, low in fault rate, easy to maintain, convenient to transfer and wide in application.