The invention discloses a climbing and ridge crossing characteristic performance detecting device for a hand-held type farmland operating machine. The climbing and ridge crossing characteristic performance detecting device comprises a base, a longitudinal up-and-down tip-over frame and a transverse left-and-right tip-over frame are hinged through a longitudinal tip-over shaft located on a transverse symmetric plane, the transverse left-and-right tip-over frame is hinged to the base through a transverse tip-over frame located on a longitudinal symmetric plane to achieve transverse left-and-right rotation, one end of a cylinder body of a longitudinal up-and-down tip-over oil cylinder and one end of a cylinder body of a piton rod stretching cylinder are respectively hinged to the base and the longitudinal up-and-down tip-over frame, one end of a cylinder body of a transverse left-and-right tip-over oil cylinder and one end of the cylinder body of the piston rod stretching body are hinged to the base and the longitudinal up-and-down tip-over frame respectively, the longitudinal up-and-down tip-over frame is provided with a hand-held support for measuring the hand-held force, and a wheel position force measuring device is located on the longitudinal up-and-down tip-over frame and can move front and back and left and right. The climbing and ridge crossing characteristic performance detecting device is reliable in testing, high in testing precision and easy and convenient to operate, the manual operation is simulated at an armrest, and comprehensive detection on the limitation tip-over angle of longitudinal static ascending and descending, the limitation tip-over angle of transverse static left leaning and right leaning and other items of the hand-held type farmland operating machine can be finished under one testing state.