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

Moonshine: Running Dry

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

Hunting: The Mountain Provides

Spencer and Eugene build the Fort Knox of chicken coops.

Homestead: Under Siege

Spencer and Eugene are living off of the land and making do with little, but one day they find a tool worth having.

Prospecting: The Hillbilly Savings Account

Spencer and Eugene put their bartering skills to the test as they try to procure a chainsaw.

Barter: Money Can't Buy Everything

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.

Stranded: The Journey Home

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.

Moonshine Secrets

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

Church and Snake

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.

Sunken Treasure

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

Hillbilly Tow

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.

Mine Full 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.

Apple Jack

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.

A Fishy Trade

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.

Tom-A-Hawg

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.

Survival of the Fittest

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.

Hillbilly Prepper

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.

Waste Not, Want Not

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.

Hillbilly BBQ

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!

Legend of the Lost Creek Gold

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.

Green Gold

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.

Raise the Roof

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!

Pigskin Payout

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.

Stump Grinder

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.

Good Ole Knife Fight

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.

Cowpie Heater

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?

Huntin' Treehouse

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.

To Catch a Squirrel

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.

Backwoods Bunker

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.

Cold Mountain Power

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.

HillBilly Vodka

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.

Cowboy ATV

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.

Lincoln Logs

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.

Mountain Machete

Spencer and Eugene mount an old camper onto barrels that they weld together to make their own hillbilly houseboat. But when they attach a lawnmower-powered paddlewheel and take it to the lake, will the boys and their latest contraption sink or swim?

Hillbilly Houseboat

A heat wave is causing meltdowns on Cold Mountain. Eugene and Spencer build an air conditioner, for Mama Gene's car, from an old fan and wet rags. But when they use deadly materials to build a house-sized chiller, will it all blow up in their faces?

Hot Mama

Cheyenne presents the boys with a cooler of thawing bear meat. This good eating won't last long if the boys don't preserve it quickly. But can they build a hillbilly steam canner that's big enough to safely jar all of that meat, before they lose it?

Pressure Cooked

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 Prepper

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

Treasure Hunt

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.

Chainsaw Chopper

The guys hunt for treasure using a metal detector made by Eugene out of bamboo, wire scraps and a salvaged transistor radio.

Legend of Trapper Dan

The guys rid a friend's home of honeybees and decide to start their own honey-making business.

Hillbeely Hive

The guys build a wood kiln out of discarded oil barrels and a huge outdoor rotisserie for cooking chickens.

Walkin' Sticks and Chicken Spits

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.

Water War

The guys transform a herb-drying shed into a guesthouse cabin for Spencer's visiting mother-in-law.

Hillbilly Log Home

When Eugene breaks his mom's rare burl wood bowl, he and Spencer must cut down a giant burl, forge woodworking tools from scrap metal, and repair an old truck just to use the axle as a wood lathe, for turning their burl into a new bowl for Mama Gene.

Appalachian Burls

A creek blocks the best route from Cowboy's house to the holler, so Eugene and Spencer build an old fashion swinging bridge from scavenged rope and hand-hewn bamboo. Will their hillbilly rope bridge hold weight? Or will it dump the boys in the drink?

Backwoods Rope Bridge

Eugene and Spencer aim to clear an overgrown field and find a valuable item Cowboy hid there years ago. But their hand-made brush axes can't cut the dense growth, so the boys build a brush hog out of Cowboy's old truck and a couple of used lawn mowers.

Monster Mower

The boys must come up with a contraption that can help notorious old moonshiner, Charlie Shine, bring heavy supplies to and from his hidden still. They'll construct a mechanical cable climber to take the load off Charlie.

Secret Still

Eugene and Spencer salvage a rusted-solid Winchester M37 and an antique hit and miss diesel engine from a barn full of scrap. They must make an electrolysis bath to strip the rust off the shotgun, which they'll trade for parts to restore the engine.

Hit or Miss

Spencer and Eugene set out to build a fish farm. But when they can't afford the cattle-watering troughs where they planed to put their trout, can they rig up their own fish tanks from nothing but a roll of plastic tarp and some old hay bales instead?

Fishy Business

Widowed Mavis has doctor appointments to keep, and a stalled car. If the boys make a tire patch, a replacement gasket and a temporary fan belt out of junk, then they get an old alternator from a junkyard, they might get Mavis to the doctor on time.

Car Bartering

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.

Knife Grind

Spencer and Eugene must build their own hillbilly houseboat, out of a discarded camping trailer, which they float on a pontoon platform made with rows of airtight oil drums, when Cheyenne gets a leisure boat and becomes a bit too big for his britches.

Catfish Catchin'

Eugene and Spencer plan to build wood-burning stoves out of steel barrels, with windows made of high-quality block mica. Can they also build a hand-powered pump trolley out of junkyard scraps for bringing heavy sacks of mica down from the mountains?

Risky Railroads

Spencer and Eugene must build a barn wood display case for Cheyenne's store. But to get the wood they must make traps to catch a critter, to make into groundhog grease, to trade for a dog, which they can trade for barn wood to finally make the case.

Mountain Swapping

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.

4th of July

Eugene and Spencer run out of vintage high carbon steel, for forging knives to fill an important order. Can they build a salvage barge from junk, to seek a lost sawmill in an abandoned underwater town, and retrieve the old steel that was left behind?

Underwater Ghost Town Part 1

Eugene and Spencer need to turn a riding mower engine into an outboard motor strong enough to power a salvage barge. The boys want it to locate a lost sawmill in an abandoned underwater town, where they hope to retrieve any vintage steel left behind.

Underwater Ghost Town Part 2

Up on Cold Mountain, in the heart of the Appalachians, life isn't easy.  Mountain folk have learned get by with little.  But two men up in these hollers truly embody the Hillbilly lifestyle:  inventor Eugene Runkis and his best friend Spencer Bolejack.  Together, these two unlock the secrets of the mountain to help them put food on the table and support their families.  And if that means concocting gadgets from what most people would consider trash, that's suits them just fine.  With their innate Hillbilly skills, they can survive whatever Mother Nature throws in their path.

The Best Seasons of Hillbilly Blood

The Best Seasons of Hillbilly Blood

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5