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Ol' Mother Nature can indeed be cruel, Mike. The huntsman type spider is subject to the attention of a few predators if I recall correctly. One is the spider wasp (which could be the one you witnessed) and, apart from birds such as the Kookaburra, another class of flying insect - whose name totally eludes me at the moment, but they look like hornets as they have long dangling legs.
I once witnessed an orange version of the latter dragging a stunned huntsman up a large sliding door window. An amazing feat of strength. The only other meeting of such kind was when a dark brown/black version of the same beastie (though a little smaller and which are common around here) flew into my workshop. This, by the way, is not an unusual occurrence so I thought little of it. This time though the thing flew into my hair; naturally I brushed it away. I was sitting at the work computer at the time and heard a solid 'plop' on my keyboard. The offending object was the body of a huntsman sans legs. These insects must stun the spider and then de-limb the poor thing before heading off to somewhere to store it. Yuk!
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