I've seen some Youtube videos where they use both the smaller bags that might hold a couple cubic feet, as well as the continuous tube, and you can either leave
enough material at the end to twist it and tuck under the bag you place, or you use a wire to crudely "stitch" the end closed and it's pressed against another bag or surface to hold it in shape for tamping. It would seem you could get more per bag using the stitch option, and the wire isn't real thick or fancy. Maybe some twist ties, when you get the barbed wire to lay between bags?