Hillbilly Blood

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

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

Spencer and Eugene build the Fort Knox of chicken coops.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

When Spencer hears that the fire chief wants to equip his squad with Cold Mountain-made tools, he and Eugene salvage a steel saw blade from the big scrapyard, and get to work forging a bushwhacking brush clearing machete from it, to win the contract.

Season 4 begins with Cowboy asking Eugene and Spencer to fortify his compound in preparation for the end days. Included: The guys construct a wood still to make sure that their neighbor will have fuel no matter what.

Cowboy convinces Eugene and Spencer to embark on an expedition for gold, but they encounter an interloper who threatens to steal their treasure.

Eugene and Spencer decide to build a solar-powered hot water heater out of salvaged pipes and old beer cans, but first they need to construct a chainsaw chopper for their friend who has the supplies they need.