Hillbilly Blood

When a dying hemlock tree threatens to topple over onto Spencer's forge, Eugene makes a plan for bringing the giant tree down safely, and then for using the 500-pound logs to build a valuable drying shed that will help Spencer grow his herb business.

Cowboy can't get around like he used to, so when the spring ramps sprout, he asks Spencer and Eugene to build him an all-terrain four-wheeler that will take him to his favorite ramp patches no matter how steep the spot they grow, up on Cold Mountain.

If the local hunt club likes a tree stand Eugene and Spencer build, the boys will be allowed to hunt on their private land. Can the boys use their hand-milled lumber, homemade birch oil, and abandoned pigsty roofing to build the stand in time?

Eugene's electric water heater keeps breaking, so he and Spencer design a replacement that runs on manure. Even if local ranchers are willing to share this rich fuel source, the boys' heater must burn clean enough, or his house will smell like a barn.

Spencer and Eugene's knife-making business is jeopardized when a stranger to the holler brings a cheaper blade into the local market. They're forced into a competition to see who can make the best knife.

The boys are on an urgent mission to remove tree stumps for their widowed neighbor. When their homemade motorcycle stump grinder fails, they have to resort to plan B: blowing up the stumps with explosives made from bat droppings.

Spencer and Eugene's friend Ben's stash of meat is savaged by wild critters. They offer to turn the tainted meat into biodiesel, so Ben can barter it for fresh farm meat. If the homemade fuel isn't perfect, it'll ruin the farmer's tractor!

Spencer and Eugene must rig up a post and scaffold system to yank a 1,300 pound tin roof off an old smokehouse to cover Spencer's outdoor forge to keep their knife-making business going all winter.

The boys must harvest half a pound of ginseng to trade for Eugene's truck down payment. But a poacher is getting in their way. It's a race against time to track him down and find a way to get these roots dried, all before that truck gets sold.

Spencer and Eugene hunt for gold with their friend Cowboy. They'll create a hillbilly rickshaw to carry him through the hills. Then they'll have to brave freezing water if they want to suction out gold from the river-bed with their homemade dredger!

The local blacksmith enlists Spencer and Eugene to fix his broken pigpen in exchange for lard and pork.Their challenge is to concoct a battery-powered welder, but even with this helpful contraption Spencer breaks his precious tomahawk axe.

The guys trade their fish for a refrigerator, which they then turn into a smoker. They also make "black drink" with holly leaves they picked, careful not to choose the poisonous ones.

Making applejack is harder than Spencer and Eugene expected. First, they turn a shed into a root cellar, and then they must deal with a freak storm and faulty equipment.

If the boys can repair a decrepit garnet mine, they stand to uncover a treasure trove of gems. But nothing comes easy for these mountain men. They trek across dangerously muddy roads and risk being buried alive if their hillbilly engineering can't hold.

Spencer and Eugene go out on a limb to extract a rare 1940s Willys jeep abandoned in the forest. They'll cut down a two-ton tree to help free the jeep from its precarious perch. If the tree falls the wrong way, it could destroy the jeep and kill the boys

Spencer and Eugene concoct a home made pontoon barge and diving gear to retrieve submerged old growth logs. They’ll risk life and limb diving into the frigid lake.

Eugene and Spencer embark on a dangerous mission to find snakes for a Pentecostal church service.

In the second-season premiere, Eugene and Spencer aim to track down a mystery moonshiner to learn his secrets, but to do so, they must cross freezing rivers and disarm a deadfall trap.

Spencer and Eugene build a crossbow to help them catch dinner in the backwoods of the mountains.

t's a long, intense process to make moonshine.