An Australian television personality has thrown his hat in the ring to help capture a giant Indonesian crocodile and remove a motorcycle tire stuck around its neck.

Matt Wright, the host of National Geographic’s “Monster Croc Wrangler” show, was on the island of Sulawesi Thursday with a team using traps baited with duck, a drone and even a harpoon in a bid to reel in the reptile.

“It (the harpoon) doesn’t hurt the crocodile,” the croc wrangler told reporters Thursday in the city of Palu.

“It just goes in a little bit. It’s like getting your ears pierced.”

Wright told more than 200,000 followers on Instagram that the team had trapped a smaller croc on Wednesday “training for the main event”.

But catching the bigger beast was a challenge, he said, because of the tough environment and the fact that it wasn’t hungry due to ample food in the river.