Incredible moment a VERY stubborn saltwater crocodile terrorising a community is moved on by a front end loader - and he's not happy

• A resident has used a backhoe to try and remove a crocodile from the road 
• The encounter took place on the Saibai Island in the Torres Strait in Australia
• The video drew comment by TV hosts on Sunrise on Thursday morning

A massive saltie refusing to budge from a Torres Strait island met its match when an enterprising local brought in a backhoe loader.

Extraordinary video captures the moment the resident of Saibai Island, in northern Australia, manoeuvres the scoop of the machine to try and shift the stubborn beast from where it was resting beside a road.

Multiple attempts were made to budge the 'salty', although it remained fairly reluctant to move on. 

After the video was shown on Sunrise on Thursday morning, the hosts joked, with Angie Asimus saying 'anywhere you find crocs on a footpath, good to get around in a backhoe'.

'You kind of need more than a shovel, don't you,' Natalie Barr commented.

While Mark Beretta even suggested a larger backhoe or even a bulldozer was needed. 

The Torres Strait encounter comes only days after a tourist narrowly escaped death when he was attacked by a massive freshwater crocodile in north-west Queensland.

The victim, aged in his forties, was swimming in a gorge at a remote national park around 2pm on Sunday when a crocodile latched onto his arm.

The man, who was on a motorbiking tour group, fought back, wrestling with the croc until its jaws opened and released him.

As well as injuries to his arm, he suffered puncture wounds to both hands and his leg during the ordeal.

After the attack tour members called triple zero then drove the injured tourist to a nearby airstrip to meet the rescue chopper.

The Mount Isa RACQ LifeFlight Rescue crew rushed to the remote location just after 2pm and airlifted the man to Mount Isa Hospital in a stable condition.

'He was in a lot of pain and the puncture wounds from the croc's teeth were very deep,' RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Aircrew Officer Greig Allan said.

'The patient told us the saltwater crocodile would have been between two and three metres long, so he's lucky to have escaped with his life.'

Earlier this month a woman was mauled by a freshwater crocodile while swimming at a popular tourist spot in Western Australia. 

The 38-year-old was bitten on the leg on May 4 while enjoying a dip at Butler Cove, Lake Argyle, in the remote Kimberley.

She suffered serious leg injuries and was rushed to Kununurra Hospital before being taken to Broome Regional Hospital in a stable condition.