Aiming at achieving that tobacco was extracted, transported and ordered in an orderly manner and reducing labor intensity. the SJ–100 self–propelled tobacco lifting tobacco was designed. The tobacco lifting machine mainly composed of walking device，lifting device, delivering device and putting device. A four–wheel chassis of the motor drive and the rear wheel steering was used as walking device to achieve good performance of passing and operating. Both the lifting device and the putting device adopt the double parallelogram mechanism, which can always keep the tobacco in balance during the up–and–down lifting and the front and rear pushing. When the machine works, the tobacco on the ground was lifted from the lifting device and moved to the placement device via the lift conveyor and then placed on the grill. The test results show that the process of tobacco lifting and putting were smoothly and orderly, the walking speed was 3.11 m/s, the single lifting quality was 150 kg, the conveying speed was 0.2 m/s, the net elevating conveyor height was 1.9 m, It is shown that all working quality index can meet the requirements of the curing barn and the tobacco lifting.