Hillbilly Blood

Eugene and Spencer go on a mission to track down a mystery moonshiner who has overtaken Eugene's spot as top bootlegger in the holler and learn his secrets to a better brew. In the process, they'll have to brave freezing rivers and disarm a deadfall trap.

Doing their part to keep mountain traditions alive, Spencer and Eugene help a local preacher in need of snakes for a Pentecostal church service. A dangerous assignment, especially in winter, they need to devise gadgets to protect themselves and any 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.

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 Apple Jack liquor turns out to be almost more than Spencer and Eugene bargained for. Everything from turning a shed into a root cellar, freak storms and faulty equipment could stop them in their tracks. Their hillbilly gumption sees them through.

Eugene and Spencer trade fish for a fridge to make a smoker. While the fish smokes, they look for specific holly leaves to make Black Drink, a coffee substitute. Similar leaves are poisonous, so it's imperative they pick the right plant.

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 build a "gassifer," which will create electricity when other power systems fail. But building a sophisticated machine like this out of scrapyard parts is not easy and could cause a serious explosion.

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.