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.

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

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.

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.

Spencer and Eugene are forced off a blocked road into the woods while delivering medicine. With no provisions, Spencer plants a fish trap, but falls into a freezing stream. Eugene quickly makes an insulated coat for him out of grass.

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.