Grew up in potato country and did my share of work for farmers that used romex to power conveyer belts without male plugs, just bare wire pushing 220.
They thought it was hilarious to watch someone get zapped (this is with 220 on wet concrete floors!)

As for the barbed wire incident, the field was empty, he had moved his cows in the barn for the winter the week before. Let us just say that that was a mistake I never made again!