A farmer in Madierki, India, has built his own fully functioning excavator from refurbished parts he found at nearby shops.

Ashwin Kumar, who has a BSc in agriculture, made a mini digger to help locals cultivate coffee, bananas and vegetables.

To power his machine he Kumar uses an eight horsepower engine which as 3,000 rpm. He purchased the engine from a second-hand shop.

Kumar says: “Many people asked me whether the digger can be made to make inter cultivation in crops so I came up with an idea of making it small with a high underbelly which could make the digger go anywhere.

“The breadth is 2X8 ft and has 8 cage wheels if the top portion i.e the backhoe when removed it can be used as a moto kart and even to make the heaps of coffee and paddy and for small levelling works.

“It has two hydraulic motors independently working so the cost may add up by 3000 GBP that means 3 lakhs INR by that u will be having digger Motokart coffee heaping equipment.”

This footage was filmed on March 3.