Video – The stuff of acrophobic nightmares…

If you’re afraid of heights, DO NOT press play.

This is not the first time we have brought you footage of excavators placed precariously atop a Chinese building, defying gravity, best practice and good sense.

But even by previous standards, this one is deeply scary. For not only is the machine perched maybe 15 storeys above the ground, it s also sat on a platform roughly the size of the machine’s undercarriage.

This is not one for the faint-hearted: