Huntsman are scary but harmless

They're bloody smart too, In my younger days we rented a 10acre property which had an abundance of the hairy legged buggers, our cats used to try and catch them, right until the spiders figured out that the cat couldn't get them if the hung off of the cats.
The cats weren't amused with the tables being turned. We were (but from a safe distance).

We would also try to shuffle them out of the house with a broom bravely wielded from the other end to the spider, the little bastards would launch themselves with a spinning motion up towards the source of their annoyance who would tend to bolt (in a manly fashion) away from the evil baskets.