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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

Spencer and Eugene build the Fort Knox of chicken coops.