The 34-year-old man was arrested after causing damage in a cemetery and to fields and other vehicles at Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
The vehicle, believed to have been stolen, was driven into a car with a person inside it and then through a cemetery wall, and damaged several headstones.
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A police spokeswoman said it was spotted just before 6pm on Saturday by a dog section officer who tried to pull the driver over because of the way it was being driven, but he instead drove it into an open field.
The vehicle was travelling at around 15mp/h (24km/h) and so the officer got out of his vehicle and made further attempts to signal to the driver to stop," a spokeswoman said.
"Additional police resources were deployed including the police helicopter."
The rampage last less than 10 minutes but during which time the earthmover caused damage to fields, hedges, vehicles and within the
cemetery, police said.
After being arrested the man remains in police custody.
