Hillbilly Blood - Season 5
1 - Cowboy Prepper
Air Date: May 2, 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.
2 - Treasure Hunt
Air Date: May 2, 2015
Cowboy convinces Eugene and Spencer to embark on an expedition for gold, but they encounter an interloper who threatens to steal their treasure.
3 - Chainsaw Chopper
Air Date: May 9, 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.
4 - Legend of Trapper Dan
Air Date: May 9, 2015
The guys hunt for treasure using a metal detector made by Eugene out of bamboo, wire scraps and a salvaged transistor radio.
5 - Hillbeely Hive
Air Date: May 16, 2015
The guys rid a friend's home of honeybees and decide to start their own honey-making business.
6 - Walkin' Sticks and Chicken Spits
Air Date: May 16, 2015
The guys build a wood kiln out of discarded oil barrels and a huge outdoor rotisserie for cooking chickens.
7 - Water War
Air Date: 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.
8 - Hillbilly Log Home
Air Date: May 30, 2015
The guys transform a herb-drying shed into a guesthouse cabin for Spencer's visiting mother-in-law.
9 - Appalachian Burls
Air Date: 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.
10 - Backwoods Rope Bridge
Air Date: 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?
11 - Monster Mower
Air Date: June 6, 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.
12 - Secret Still
Air Date: June 6, 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.
13 - Hit or Miss
Air Date: June 6, 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.
14 - Fishy Business
Air Date: June 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?
15 - Car Bartering
Air Date: June 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.
16 - Knife Grind
Air Date: June 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.
17 - Catfish Catchin'
Air Date: June 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.
18 - Risky Railroads
Air Date: June 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?
19 - Mountain Swapping
Air Date: June 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.
20 - 4th of July
Air Date: June 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.
21 - Underwater Ghost Town Part 1
Air Date: June 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?
22 - Underwater Ghost Town Part 2
Air Date: June 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.