I've never done 8 foot fencing, but I would guess it's similar to 4 foot, just heavier. I use a metal stretcher bar from Kencove that cost me a little over a hundred bucks a few years ago. Before that, I was bolting two 2x6's together, but that didn't work as good as the metal stretcher bar. For just 4 rolls, you're probably fine with 2x6's.
To pull my fence, I park my backhoe where it lines up with the fence, then run chains from the backhoe to a Come Along at the bottom and another at the top of the fence. Then I just tighten it as tight as I can get it. From what I've read, you never want to straighten out the tension bends in the wire. I'm not strong enough to get it that tight, but I guess I could if I used the hydraulics on the backhoe. But there isn't any reason to get it tighter then I can with the Come Alongs. It's pretty tight!!!!!
For me, the biggest challenge was figuring out how to unroll the wire. It's only 200 feet, but it's still super heavy and awkward. I didn't want to spend the money on something from the store, so I used what I had. I put my hay spear at the tips of my pallet forks, then slid a pipe over the hay spear and cut a round disk from plywood for the wire to sit on. My first disk was too small, but now I have it big enough to keep the wire on there while I'm backing up.