A scientist in Thiruvananthapuram, India, has transformed his old car into a functioning backhoe in just two months.

Ben Jacob, a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), spent his time during the country's COVID-19 lockdown making the DIY digger.

Footage filmed on January 24 shows Jacob using the backhoe to dig a hole in the ground.

It cost the scientist around $958 to transform the car into the backhoe whereas an excavator would cost $27,378. He used the car he had purchased for his wife so she could learn to drive a few years ago.

Scientist Jacob has turned his old car into a backhoe during the lockdown period in just 2 months in Thiruvananthapuram.

The inventor of the car backhoe is a scientist at Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) named Jacob of Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC).

Homemade backhoe by the inventor had a lifting capacity of 500 kilograms (1102 lbs), 14-foot-long horizontal and vertical reach with about six tonnes of digging capacity.

The inventor Ben Jacob decided to make the backhoe during the COVID-19 lockdown in India with the old car that he had purchased for his wife to learn driving few years ago.

Cost of turning an old car into a backhoe was Rs 70000 ( USD 958 ) stated Scientist Jacob who invented the less cost excavator using an old car.

Usually an excavator costs around Rs 20 Lakhs ( USD 27378 ) this is low cost excavator designed which can be used in farmlands and to dig ponds.