An outback pub barman bitten on the leg by a snake while urinating outside has been driven to safety and treated by paramedics on the back of a ute.

While that may sound too quintessentially Aussie to be true, it's what unfolded late on Wednesday night in Queensland's north-west.

Paramedics treated the bitten man on the back of a ute. Credit:7 News Qld/Twitter

Gary Peters, 53, was enjoying some cold beers at the Gregory Downs Hotel, where he also works, about 300km north of Mount Isa, when he walked outside to 'take a leak' in some bushes.

But, instead, he got a nasty surprise.