My neighbor and I built a 6' fence around my back yard at my former house using 4X4 posts, 2X4 upper and lower stringers and hog wire. We hand hammered the galvanized staples, and I don't remember it being especially labor intensive. We built about 100' of fencing in a couple of 6-8 hour days, which included digging the post holes by hand and setting them in concrete. Stretching the hog wire taught over an 8' span was accomplished with a pry bar. It's still stretched tight after about ten years.
Biggest problem we had was one of the posts warped quite a bit after we built the fence. We just left it there and it still stands.
Seriously, you sound a lot like me. Too much effort put into planning and designing, then when you finally build it you say wow, that was easy. Should have just gone out there and done it months ago.
What happened to me is I watched my neighbor build his and he made it look easy because it was. So we just continued it over to my yard.
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