Tim Smith was clearing the property at Cawdor to prepare for the big day when he sustained critical injuries to his upper body and head and required treatment from intensive care paramedics.

"The bobcat got stuck in the mud and we got a 30-tonne excavator and tried to pull the bobcat out but somehow I got in the road of the excavator and that's all I can remember," he said.

Yet remarkably he has since recovered from the accident and has even gone on to marry the woman he calls an "absolute gem".

Today Mr Smith, now 30, was reunited with the rescuers who helped keep him alive.

It is the first time they have seen each other they airlifted him to hospital in March 2019.

Paramedics responded to 'Confronting scene' 

Queensland Ambulance Service paramedic Stephen Baigrie said rescue crews faced a confronting scene when they arrived at the scene.

"He had pretty significant head injuries, a fair bit of blood and, you know, that kind of stuff so it was quite confronting," Mr Baigrie said.

He said Mr Smith's condition was "touch and go" while he was flown to Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Mr Baigrie said he was amazed by Mr Smith's recovery.

"It's remarkable to see Tim up and walking around, relative to how I saw him at the time … it's a great recovery."

'A really bad accident'

Mr Smith's wife Kym, 31, said she remembered getting the call about the accident from her brother-in-law.

"I was at the gym and I missed a phone call … I rang him back because I thought it was about the electrical work that he was putting out in the marquee and he just said Tim's had a really bad accident," she said.

"I cried and yelled at him on the phone and asked him how bad it was. He said, 'I don't know but you're not allowed to come here'. And so obviously I went."

She flew in the helicopter with her fiancé and said she feared the worst during the 30-minute flight to Brisbane.

"The trip on the helicopter made me realise how bad [it was] because everything started to swell," she said.

"I just kept asking if he was going to die, that was the only thing."

Mr Smith spent several weeks in a coma, which his wife described as traumatising.

"The doctors did tell me that Tim would either not recover or be in a vegetative state, so the fact that he's here is pretty cool.

"I just used to talk to him and [our son] Hudson would come in and talk to him. And I would just do recordings on my phone if Hudson couldn't be there and play them to Tim while he was asleep."

Upon emerging from his coma, Mr Smith spent a few weeks on the neurology ward before moving to the brain injury rehab unit.

"Once I got back in Toowoomba, I started doing five therapy visits — two every day," Mr Smith said.

"Then in January last year, I started going back to work, but only like very marginal things — but it's slowly getting better and better."

Mr Smith said news they were expecting a second child helped spur his recovery.

"That was the probably the main thing that sort of pushed me along … I wanted to be there to raise my daughter."

Mr Smith said he was 'Over the moon' to be able to finally meet his rescuers.

Ms Smith agreed it was lovely to meet the people who comforted them.

"I still remember [Stephen's] face sitting across from me in the helicopter — he kept giving me reassuring nods as we were flying down there," she said.

The couple finally tied the knot in February this year, almost two years later than planned.

"Kym's an absolute gem — she stands by me day in, day out so it's really good to be able to call her my wife."

The couple have donated money given to them for their wedding to LifeFlight, which took Mr Smith by chopper to Brisbane after the accident.

Story By | David Chen