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.
Spencer and Eugene are living off of the land and making do with little, but one day they find a tool worth having.
Spencer and Eugene put their bartering skills to the test as they try to procure a chainsaw.
The guys find themselves in a perilous situation when Spencer's truck breaks down and, in order to get home, they have to brave plunging temperatures and a long mountain trek.
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.
The guys find a rare jeep abandoned in the forest, but a 2-ton tree stands as an obstacle to them taking it home
The guys put their lives at risk repairing a decrepit garnet mine in hopes the payoff will be a treasure trove of gems
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.
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.
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 are tasked with transporting a supply of medicine but are pushed off course due to a blocked road; Spencer falls into freezing waters while fishing in a stream, so Eugene utilizes grass to craft an insulated coat for him to wear.
Eugene decides to make an alternative means of power in case any of the systems in the home happen to fail, but his ambitions to create such a highly complex device out of scraps may result in an incredibly deadly outcome.
It’s winter and firewood is scarce. Spencer and Eugene need firewood fast, but without a serious log splitter, it will take the boys forever to chop it up. Eugene devises a wild contraption he makes at the blacksmith’s shop.
Eugene and Spencer are enlisted into taking over the holler’s annual hoedown. The boys have only two days to concoct a giant grill large enough to feed the entire community, make homemade wood charcoal, plus a stage for the band out of shipping pallets.
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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?
Spencer and Eugene's friend Cowboy wants a girlfriend for his pet squirrel, but capturing a squirrel isn't easy! They must create camouflage suits, and backwoods blowguns, complete with spider venom-tipped darts to try and keep their promise to Cowboy.
Eugene and Spencer make a secret bug-out shelter using an abandoned dynamite cabinet. Eugene risks his life burying the drainage pipe as the steel shelter above him is lowered into the ground.
Eugene and Spencer build a wind turbine to create free power for a friend. They make a wind gauge from a toy car motor and a can and build a turbine powered by a car alternator. Eugene uses this energy to electrify the battery shed to deter thieves.
Eugene and Spencer make Hillbilly Vodka for Eugene's mom from potatoes a farmer gives them. They use Spencer's truck like a giant blender to smash the potatoes for mash, and build an insulated hay house to store the extras.
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.
The guys hunt for treasure using a metal detector made by Eugene out of bamboo, wire scraps and a salvaged transistor radio.
The guys rid a friend's home of honeybees and decide to start their own honey-making business.
The guys build a wood kiln out of discarded oil barrels and a huge outdoor rotisserie for cooking chickens.
Eugene and Spencer build a trickle-feed irrigation system using bamboo and some scrap metal in hopes of resolving a water feud that is threatening Cowboy's crops.
The guys transform a herb-drying shed into a guesthouse cabin for Spencer's visiting mother-in-law.
Eugene makes a burl bowl for his mom to replace the one her broke.
Eugene and Spencer build an old-fashioned swinging bridge from scavenged rope and hand-hewn bamboo.
The guys build a monster mower to clear an overgrown field, and with any luck, they hope to find a valuable item Cowboy hid there years ago.
Spencer and Eugene help a notorious old moonshiner come up with a contraption to bring heavy supplies to and from his hidden still.
Eugene and Spencer salvage a rusted-solid Winchester M37 and an antique diesel engine from a barn full of scrap.
Spencer and Eugene set out to build a fish farm using nothing but a roll of plastic tarp and some old hay bales.
The guys help a widow get to her doctor appointment on time, but that means first fixing her car, which needs a tire patch, replacement gasket, temporary fan belt and an alternator.
Spencer and Eugene have two days to forge 15 knives for a collector. The boys construct a water wheel to power a homemade hydro-powered grinder—and to power an electric light. Because if they want to meet that deadline, they must pull an all-nighter.
A hillbilly houseboat is built out of a discarded camping trailer.
Eugene and Spencer need to get heavy sacks of mica down from the mountains, so they decide to build a hand-powered pump trolley out of junkyard scraps to make the job easier.
The guys make several trades, one of which involves trapping a critter, in order to obtain the barn wood they need to make a display case.
Mama Gene steps in a gopher hole and breaks her foot, leaving her homebound on the porch. She's plagued by insects, and missing out on the 4th of July festivities. So the boys build her a flame roasting bug zapper, and a hillbilly ninja rocket wheel.
Part 1 of 2. The guys embark on an adventure to retrieve old steel that was left behind in an abandoned underwater town. But first they have to build a salvage barge from junk for their expedition.
Conclusion. Eugene and Spencer attempt to turn a riding mower engine into an outboard motor strong enough to power a salvage barge, which they plan to use to locate a lost sawmill in an abandoned underwater town, where they hope to retrieve any vintage steel left behind.