Hillbilly Blood
Hillbilly Blood
TV Series
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2011 5 Seasons

Hillbilly Blood

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Storyline

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.

Episodes

Season 2

Season 2

12 Episodes Aired 2013

Eugene Runkis and Spencer "Two Dogs" Bolejack have survived in swamps, the deep mountain wilderness and the primitive Caribbean bush. Now, Eugene and Spencer are using their backwoods ingenuity to survive the Appalachian Mountains – the Hillbilly way. From crossing a freezing river in a raft made out of vines, to eating deer heart for dinner, it's a hardscrapple life.

30 min
E1

Moonshine Secrets

Apr 13, 2013

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.

30 min
E2

Church and Snake

Apr 13, 2013

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

30 min
E3

Sunken Treasure

Apr 20, 2013

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.

30 min
E4

Hillbilly Tow

Apr 27, 2013

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

30 min
E5

Mine Full of Gems

May 04, 2013

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.

30 min
E6

Apple Jack

May 11, 2013

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.

30 min
E7

A Fishy Trade

May 18, 2013

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.

30 min
E8

Tom-A-Hawg

May 25, 2013

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.

30 min
E9

Survival of the Fittest

Jun 08, 2013

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.

30 min
E10

Hillbilly Prepper

Jun 08, 2013

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.

30 min
E11

Waste Not, Want Not

Jun 15, 2013

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.

30 min
E12

Hillbilly BBQ

Jun 15, 2013

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.

Season 3

Season 3

12 Episodes Aired 2014

The boys use their Hillbilly smarts to search for a lost creek filled with gold and create their own dredger to retrieve the treasure. They also use their hillbilly engineering skills to make a water-wheel-powered dehydrator out of junk, and to move a tin roof.

30 min
E1

Legend of the Lost Creek Gold

Jan 25, 2014

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!

30 min
E2

Green Gold

Jan 25, 2014

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.

30 min
E3

Raise the Roof

Feb 01, 2014

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.

30 min
E4

Pigskin Payout

Feb 08, 2014

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!

30 min
E5

Stump Grinder

Feb 15, 2014

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.

30 min
E6

Good Ole Knife Fight

Feb 22, 2014

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.

30 min
E7

Cowpie Heater

Mar 01, 2014

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.

30 min
E8

Huntin' Treehouse

Mar 08, 2014

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?

30 min
E9

To Catch a Squirrel

Mar 15, 2014

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.

30 min
E10

Backwoods Bunker

Mar 22, 2014

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.

30 min
E11

Cold Mountain Power

Mar 29, 2014

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.

30 min
E12

HillBilly Vodka

Apr 05, 2014

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

Season 4

6 Episodes Aired 2014

HILLBILLY BLOOD is back with another season of everyone's favorite country-living MacGyvers and even more of Eugene and Spencer's methodical ingenuity and wilderness expertise in creating handmade contraptions – from Lincoln log drying sheds to hillbilly cooling pads. Follow these mountain men as they construct intricate gadgets and engineering machines out of scrap parts.

30 min
E1

Cowboy ATV

Aug 09, 2014

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.

30 min
E2

Lincoln Logs

Aug 09, 2014

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.

30 min
E3

Mountain Machete

Aug 16, 2014

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.

30 min
E4

Hillbilly Houseboat

Aug 16, 2014

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?

30 min
E5

Hot Mama

Aug 23, 2014

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?

30 min
E6

Pressure Cooked

Aug 23, 2014

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?

Season 5

Season 5

22 Episodes Aired 2015

Spencer and Eugene build a hillbilly houseboat out of a discarded camping trailer, a metal detector out of bamboo and wire scraps, a engine-powered chainsaw bicycle, a solar-powered hot water heater out of salvaged pipes and old beer cans, and many more odd projects on this season of Hillbilly Blood.

30 min
E1

Cowboy Prepper

May 02, 2015

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.

30 min
E2

Treasure Hunt

May 02, 2015

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

30 min
E3

Chainsaw Chopper

May 09, 2015

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.

30 min
E4

Legend of Trapper Dan

May 09, 2015

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

30 min
E5

Hillbeely Hive

May 16, 2015

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

30 min
E6

Walkin' Sticks and Chicken Spits

May 16, 2015

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

30 min
E7

Water War

May 30, 2015

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.

30 min
E8

Hillbilly Log Home

May 30, 2015

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

30 min
E9

Appalachian Burls

May 30, 2015

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.

30 min
E10

Backwoods Rope Bridge

May 30, 2015

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?

30 min
E11

Monster Mower

Jun 06, 2015

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.

30 min
E12

Secret Still

Jun 06, 2015

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.

30 min
E13

Hit or Miss

Jun 06, 2015

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.

30 min
E14

Fishy Business

Jun 13, 2015

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?

30 min
E15

Car Bartering

Jun 13, 2015

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.

30 min
E16

Knife Grind

Jun 13, 2015

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.

30 min
E17

Catfish Catchin'

Jun 20, 2015

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.

30 min
E18

Risky Railroads

Jun 20, 2015

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?

30 min
E19

Mountain Swapping

Jun 20, 2015

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.

30 min
E20

4th of July

Jun 27, 2015

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.

30 min
E21

Underwater Ghost Town Part 1

Jun 27, 2015

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?

30 min
E22

Underwater Ghost Town Part 2

Jun 27, 2015

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.

Series Info

Status

Ended

Seasons

5

Episodes

58

Language

en

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