Marrakai,
You are 100% correct, we only use a tourniquet for mamba and cobra bites, the reason for that I don't know.

We have anti venom on the farm, but I will think twice before I administrer it. If it is a matter of life and death I will do it, otherwise I will let the hospital do it. Too many things can go wrong.

Something that is more scary in RSA is that there are about 600000 spiders per hectare. Out of the 63 families only 6 are important, luckily you will not die off a spider bite but it can be very uncomfortable and sometimes painfull.