This is the impressive moment an excavator used its bucket to climb down from a lorry.

The skilled operator managed to unload the heavy machine from the open-bed truck without a ramp at a construction site in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Footage captured by Samir Lubis shows the worker strategically manoeuvring the excavator's bucket, anchoring it to the ground before slowly driving forward on October 11.

He then lowered the boom, easing the undercarriage down before repositioning the arm and securing it on the back of the heavy goods vehicle.

The operator carefully reversed, using the arm to bear the machine's weight until the excavator safely touched the ground.

Samir said: ‘The truck couldn't start because of an engine problem, so the operator had to find another way to remove the excavator from the vehicle. What he did was so cool and very entertaining.'