By David Allan-Petale
To go wakeboarding you usually need three things - a stretch of open water and a boat with a fast motor.
But cousins Carl Lindberg and Abe Wright came up with a different combination, using a flooded South West paddock and an excavator to create their own private water park.
The tradesmen drove the excavator into the middle of the flooded paddock, attached a line and hand grip to the end of the hydraulic arm and started having fun.
In a video uploaded by Mr Lindberg to Youtube, the cousins and their mates perform jumps, flips, 360 degree airs, skim boarding and surfing as the excavator spins them round and round.
There's a fair few wipe outs, but the water is only ankle deep, so it's all in good fun.
It just goes to show that with a bit of imagination and some heavy machinery, anything's possible.