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00:00Tonight, on Moonshiners, it's beam-setting day.

00:07My dog's runnin' around here. You didn't cutie-pie me and you've been scrappin', son.

00:11We gotta figure out how we're gonna do this really fast.

00:14Look out!

00:15Take the swing out of that thing!

00:17Are you smokin' crack or what?

00:19Ho, ho, ho! It's gone! Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out!

00:26He's pretty much a legend.

00:28That's smoother than a baby tying in.

00:30I'm gonna get a hot chair in just a second.

00:34This is the best stuff I ever made.

00:36This is high-dollar stuff right here. We're talking about $150 a gallon right here.

00:47That sand's pretty real steep.

00:54Fire!

00:55Moonshine is a part of our history.

00:57It exists, but it doesn't. It's almost like a myth.

01:01I'm America's most wanted moonshiner.

01:06That's not a good thing to be wanted by the law.

01:11I live on the edge of anarchy.

01:15It's very hard to catch moonshiners.

01:17Get out.

01:18They're very smart.

01:20There can only be one chief wondering if we're gonna put this thing up.

01:28Golly, that's good.

01:32We could supply the whole world with moonshine and everybody would be happy.

01:37If you really love your country, you're gonna have to love moonshine.

01:50Moonshiner Tim has been under constant surveillance by Virginia's ABC.

01:55He knows they could be watching anywhere.

02:01It's been a relentless pursuit that has left him with no other option but to go legal.

02:06But like all good moonshiners, Tim is never without a backup plan.

02:15This is the best stuff I ever made.

02:17This is high-dollar stuff right here. We're talking about $150 a gallon right here.

02:22Tim has hidden his moonshine in an old Virginia-style tobacco barn.

02:27He's taking advantage of one of this building's extraordinary features,

02:31an underground cellar growers once used to store their tobacco.

02:36But Tim has actually taken it a step further.

02:38He dug into the wall of the barn's cellar, creating a storage space that's hidden by a layer of dirt.

02:45But the cellar itself is only accessible through a trap door in the barn floor.

02:49Double protection against anybody snooping around, looking for his stash of moonshine.

02:55All these jugs, it's kind of an initial policy.

02:59If I get in trouble or get in a tight spot, I can grab some of this stuff and sell it right quick.

03:04His stash is worth well over $10,000.

03:08First, I gotta protect my family, I gotta protect Tickle.

03:11I feel like right now's the time I gotta move it.

03:14The ABC agents, they're looking at every building.

03:18You never know, guys may get lucky.

03:21If I got it here and they do find it, I'm gonna get in trouble.

03:26I can't afford that because I'm trying to go legal with a legal distillery.

03:30It's a lot of moonshine right here.

03:32It's a whole lot of money right here.

03:34And no one knows anything about it.

03:37This is my dream, and I can't take everyone down with me.

03:41This is my dream, and I can't take everyone down with me.

03:47After having to abandon their still site,

03:50moonshiners Jeff and Mark have moved deep into the Great Smoky Mountains for a fresh start.

03:57With the moonshine season only lasting as long as there's plenty of corn from harvest,

04:02having to move could prove costly for Jeff and Mark.

04:05This time, they've built a new site with a handmade trough to deliver water to their still.

04:10And now they're conducting a pressure test to see if the still can hold vapors without leaking.

04:16It's not looking good.

04:19It's leaking pretty good, Mark.

04:21If we lose that much mash in every run, we'll be in trouble.

04:25The drainage arm of their still pot is broken and leaking fast.

04:30I'd like to take it and put it there.

04:32Yeah.

04:34With time of the essence, they'll need help to make the repairs,

04:38and there's only one man left in these hollows more knowledge than Mark and Jeff.

04:43Legendary moonshiner Jim Tom.

04:47He's honed his craft in these mountains the last 60 years, since he was 12 years old.

04:53He's pretty much a legend.

04:56That's smoother than a baby tying in.

04:58Jim Tom makes a little drink floating around on the top.

05:01I ain't gonna drink too much. I just drank enough to get rid of the flu.

05:05Ha!

05:07He's one of the last of the old moonshiners that's left here.

05:11He's one of a kind.

05:13I don't know that this world could have stood two of him.

05:16You favor popcorn a little bit. You ain't his boy, are you?

05:19I might be. You never know.

05:21No, the mole might have jumped the fence.

05:23Might have.

05:25The old Jim Tom, he's good.

05:27You can't beat him for just being around the spill or helping you or whatever.

05:31Tack it on that and it'll fly right off of there.

05:34Tack the end of it on that bed.

05:36If I didn't mock him or trust him, I wouldn't be here.

05:39Probably about five years old, I can remember Jim Tom.

05:42Hard to store that.

05:44Try it right above it and let it run down on there.

05:47You know, he used to come up and him and Daddy would drink a lot of liquor together.

05:51You know, Daddy and Grandpa, they made liquor way before my time.

05:55Jim Tom's been a dud and that's longer than I've been alive.

05:59How old are you?

06:01Forty-seven.

06:03I'm seventy-two on Christmas.

06:05Forty-seven, fifty-seven, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, sixty-eight.

06:08I'm twenty-five years older than you.

06:10Been a building stealer for thirty years.

06:12Still doing it today, ain't I?

06:14Yep, still doing them today.

06:16We're ready.

06:21Two hundred kilometers to the southwest,

06:23New Shiners Josh and Bill are taking their underground hill site to the next phase.

06:29Starting the day with digging.

06:31Rather than head into the woods, they've decided to hide in plain sight,

06:35building their still right underneath a music stage.

06:39The only problem is, there's now a music festival set to come here in just a few days.

06:45We got so much to do and there's one headache after another.

06:49I'm about to start freaking out.

06:51When it's finished, the underground still site will contain a distilling room as well as a mash room.

06:56It can hold at least seven barrels of mash.

06:59With this many barrels, Josh and Bill can distill moonshine every day of the week.

07:04I'm not looking forward to shoveling mud around today.

07:07We'll start leveling the floor.

07:09Yep.

07:11From an engineering and a safety standpoint, it's absolutely necessary to dig down until we hit solid soil.

07:16The post that our beams are going to be sitting on is going to have tons of dirt.

07:19Back on top of it.

07:21We've got beams to set.

07:23We're feeling the crunch.

07:25What I think we need to do is get our front corners set.

07:29We've got to get leveled up first.

07:31Well, how come you always want to jump the gun?

07:33We don't have to get leveled up first.

07:35We've got to establish our bearing points.

07:37It don't have to be perfect.

07:39It just needs to be close.

07:41I mean, we're three foot higher over there than we are over here.

07:44No, that's a backfill.

07:46We've still got to get out with the machine, though.

07:47I don't give a shit.

07:49Dig it by hand or let's not do it.

07:51Bill has one way of doing things, and I have another way of doing things.

07:56The floor of this thing is not going to be the same level as that.

07:59Unless we dig out another foot of that and put it back in here.

08:03Well, I don't know what to tell you.

08:05It's going to be as close to level as we can get it.

08:07The hole is currently not level.

08:09One side has more dirt in it than the other.

08:12Josh believes to level the floor, they need to move all of the dirt out of the hole.

08:15But Bill believes the best way to level the floor is to move the dirt from one end of the hole to the other.

08:23I can't believe that Josh is talking about wanting to do this right now.

08:26We're not leveling out.

08:28We're doing back breaking, throwing dirt nine and a half feet out of a hole.

08:31We're getting so pressed for time, and if we keep butting heads, it's like,

08:35I'm wondering if we're going to be able to pull this thing off before the festival gets here.

08:39If you just come around to my way of thinking, we'll be all right.

08:42Back in Franklin County, Virginia,

08:45Tim's plan is to move his shine off his property to a hidden location.

08:53To do this, he needs to find the perfect hiding spot, then plan how to get his shine there.

08:59The risk is moving it from A to B.

09:01I think they done hired ABC agents because every time I pick up a newspaper,

09:05somebody's done got caught calling moonshine or making moonshine or selling moonshine.

09:08Deputies say they have busted up a moonshine operation.

09:12Authorities accuse the husband and wife of running a distillery right in front of their home.

09:17With everything we've found, we can tell he's been doing this a while.

09:24Deputy Sheriff Chuck knows there's more than one way to skin a cat.

09:29You can catch a moonshiner in the woods making it,

09:33but you can also catch a cat in the woods.

09:35You can catch a cat in the woods making it,

09:38but you can also catch them on the road hauling it.

09:44We'll patrol the main roads coming into the county.

09:47We look for traffic violations in order to stop the vehicle.

09:52Some bootleggers been stopping at this part right here.

09:56Everybody knows not to take that road.

09:59And once you pull up on a stop point and they stop you, it's too late.

10:02They're going to want to look in the trunk of the car or in the bed of the truck.

10:08We look for any sugar dispelled or any cortlation jars or gal jugs.

10:14We'll get consent to search the vehicle and see if there's anything in there.

10:18If I get caught, I'm going to lose the shine and go to jail.

10:21I ain't got time for that. I ain't got time for no A.B.A. agents.

10:24I ain't got time to be going to jail.

10:28Coming up...

10:29I'll see if I can get him.

10:31A massive white hog threatens Mark and Jeff's still sight.

10:35I see a well. Is there any water in it? I think that thing's dry.

10:39We've got to dig this well right here.

10:41I'm getting all the grunt work here.

10:43There's bull****.

10:45I can't fasten things.

10:47I ain't moving any more of your ****, Josh.

11:01Down in South Carolina,

11:04new moonshiners Josh and Bill push on with the build of their underground still sight.

11:10Shot on time and resources,

11:13Josh has called his friend Thomas to add a few unique enhancements to their Blue Ridge steamer still.

11:20We are putting some little extras here and there on the still.

11:23Just because it's a little something that I wanted to do.

11:26Put that right there.

11:27Put that right there.

11:29I have a sight glass on the still so you can be able to see in there and see it working.

11:34Probably going to have to drill.

11:36I'll have to hold it all the way around it and work my way slowly.

11:39This is really unusual to have this much welding on a big steamer still

11:44with this much piping and this many barrels.

11:47It's rare to see a completely stainless still

11:50because it's difficult to work with.

11:52Copper's a lot more malleable.

11:54Some people have told me I'm crazy

11:55and that I'm probably going to have to spend a lot of time cleaning it.

11:59But why build something half-assed?

12:01Should we tilt it down just a tad?

12:03I just want to make it the most beautiful thing you've ever looked at in your entire life.

12:09Could have built a Harley.

12:11Harley's not this beautiful.

12:15While Josh and Bill are adding high-tech modernties to their still,

12:19200 kilometers to the northeast,

12:21moonshiners Jeff and Mark have brought in legendary stillmaker and moonshiner Jim Tom

12:27to work on making repairs to their still.

12:31Hello in there!

12:33Somebody anxious here, I'm going to run.

12:35They'll soon be able to brew what they hope will be the first successful shine run of the season.

12:41But because they've fallen so far behind, they'll need to work around the clock.

12:46But Jeff and Mark have chosen to shine in an area that's heavily populated by wild hogs.

12:52Now there's one that's stalking the site.

12:55I'll see if I can get him.

12:57Yeah, we'll need traffic tonight because we'll be here for a while.

13:02In the long history of invasive species in Appalachia,

13:06the European wild hog is one of the most dangerous.

13:09They were first introduced to the U.S. in 1908.

13:12Fourteen European hogs were brought to a private hunting reserve in Grand County, North Carolina.

13:18They didn't stay there for long.

13:21They soon escaped to the nearby wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains,

13:25smack dab in the middle of moonshine country.

13:28They soon returned to their wild state and started breeding like crazy.

13:33But when the demand for corn liquor increased tenfold during Prohibition,

13:37moonshiners knew they were leaving the wild.

13:39And started seeing these wild hogs as food.

13:42Eating the hog allowed shiners to remain isolated high in the mountains

13:46and shine without needing to resupply in nearby towns.

13:51Okay, let's go get some supper.

13:53Bring him down.

13:55Spend as much time around this tale as we do.

13:58Mine's got to learn to eat off the land, ain't he?

14:00Oh, I used to fry me eggs on mine.

14:03Now Mark, who stalked everything that breeded,

14:05will try to take down one of these beasts.

14:08I've been hunting all my life.

14:10From the time that he was old enough to hold a knife and shoot a gun,

14:14Mark was taught the sound these woods make and the ways in which animals move.

14:19It's a rite of passage that's passed down from father to son.

14:23Usually I go hunting with my dogs,

14:26but it's a mess up our moonshine run if we get our dogs hurt.

14:30We just have to go in there and steel hunt this hog.

14:33These marks are stuff that's been killed with this gun over the years.

14:37The straight marks is deer and the B's is bears.

14:41X's is hogs.

14:44All right, we're ready.

14:46Hogs like this ridge.

14:48I've killed a lot of them on this ridge.

14:50We'll just have to look and see if there's any sign or anything to see.

14:53We'll just have to look and see if there's any sign or anything to see.

15:12Turds.

15:21Here's a hog bed.

15:23He's been here today.

15:25They dig down like this and the dirt stays cool when it's hot.

15:29He's used that bed a long time. It's getting pretty deep.

15:44These birds just talk to you.

15:46Yep. When the birds quit singing, there's somebody close by, ain't there?

15:50Yep.

15:51With Mark off hunting dinner and a damaged still, Jeff and Jim Tom press on.

15:57Jeff shoulders the broken drainage arm back onto the still.

16:01He hopes when he opens valve, water will pour out.

16:05I'll have to be careful when I put them rocks back around this thing.

16:09I'll put another on that arm.

16:11Ten-four on that.

16:15Deputy Sheriff Chuck is on a hunt of his own.

16:18He's pushed further into the mountains in pursuit of a new lead given by an informant.

16:25I've received a tip.

16:27Possible location of a still. We're going to go see what we've got.

16:31Moonshiners really like an area like this because there's no access by vehicles.

16:36And you have to have a boat or walk by foot and a long ways to get into some of these areas.

16:41It can be a long process to try to find these places.

16:45If you don't get a tip or some information, then it's like hunting a needle in a haystack.

16:50We're going to check out a fort we've had an account that used to make moonshine.

16:58There's actually a spring coming in right there.

17:01So this would be a good area for a still.

17:04There's a lot of places to hide something around here.

17:11What do you think, Tim?

17:13I don't think we're really going to lose too much gravel.

17:16I ain't going to lose a hole, though.

17:18In order to be legal, Tim's distillery needs to have a concrete foundation.

17:23To do that, they're building a frame for the floor.

17:29You hear that truck?

17:34Yeah, I see him.

17:36Tim has taken a look around.

17:39Tim has taken a gamble, ordering only one truckload of gravel for the floor of this distillery,

17:45because money for the project is a concern every step of the way.

17:50But if he hasn't ordered enough, it'll cost him more time and the clock is ticking.

17:56What do you think? We're going to need more gravel, ain't we?

17:58How many tons is that?

18:0015.4. That's what it cost me right there.

18:04I don't have enough money yet.

18:06I'll have to get you next week.

18:08All right, guys.

18:15200 kilometers to the southwest,

18:18new moonshiners Josh and Bill still can't get it together.

18:26No, no, no, no, no, no.

18:28Don't lean on it. Don't lean on it.

18:29I'm not. I'm trying to keep it from...

18:31Listen, listen.

18:32I'm holding it like this, but I've got to hold my...

18:34I'm on my eye out of the way before you damn throw the drill at me.

18:39What are you doing with my drill, man?

18:40You're smoking my drill, man.

18:42You're on drill restriction.

18:43You're on chainsaw duty.

18:45Man.

18:47Get off my drill. I ain't playing.

18:51Get off my drill.

18:52All right, we'll do what you do.

18:53I will.

18:59I'm trying to kill this hog before my run comes up.

19:03I've got to have a lot of meat,

19:04so I'm going to have to be coming in and out of town.

19:06It'll give me more time to fool with my moonshine.

19:18I see one right there.

19:23I believe all them are sows.

19:27A sow is a female boar,

19:29and knowing the sow might be pregnant,

19:31Mark lets it live.

19:34But there's bigger game out there

19:36and the bigger the game,

19:38the more dangerous the hunt.

19:46I hear some old rooster sound.

19:48That's a big boar, Tess.

19:49He's that high.

19:50His head's pretty high off the ground.

19:52You see where mud's up in here,

19:54just rubbing their sides on them.

19:55It's been a big hog here.

19:58He's a big one in here if we can find him.

20:00I'm going to try to kill him.

20:07You can see hog sign everywhere.

20:09They like a lot of cover to lay in,

20:12especially in the summertime when it's hot.

20:16Yeah, right here's this big bull's track.

20:18That's the one we're at here.

20:20Mark knows all too well

20:22he's got to hit him with the first shot.

20:25If he misses, the hog could turn and charge.

20:36He's down there.

20:52He's down there, hardly coming.

20:59That's Lyle.

21:02He's a mighty man.

21:07Mark.

21:27Mark is hot on the trail of a wild hog

21:30that he's seen a little close to a still site.

21:33He's tracked him through the dense forest to a hollow.

21:36He's got to hit the hog with the first shot

21:38or things could get dangerous.

21:40That's Lyle.

21:43He's a mighty man.

21:50I'm going to ease on around,

21:51see if we can find that big one.

22:07That's a big boar,

22:09but there's one bigger than him in here.

22:11That's him.

22:36That's Lyle.

22:54It's over.

23:03Nearly 500 kilometres to the north.

23:06Mark is busy organising his backup plan,

23:09hiding and moving hundreds of gallons of moonshine.

23:12Progress on the distillery continues.

23:15Now that they've constructed

23:17and placed posts for the distillery,

23:19they need to make sure

23:21that the key ingredient for moonshine

23:23is ready and available.

23:25Water.

23:29It's a great big old wolf spider.

23:31Wow.

23:33Well, I mean, I see a whale,

23:34but I think it ain't dry.

23:36It's got to have some water in it.

23:38Let me listen.

23:42I heard something.

23:44That hit ground.

23:46That didn't hit no water.

23:48It does sound like it dried up.

23:50The well is completely dry

23:52and without a decent water source,

23:54their whole project is in jeopardy.

23:56With no money and no time to lose,

23:58Tim's got to think of something fast.

24:00The house was right here before.

24:02Yeah.

24:04We dug a well right here.

24:06But now before,

24:08if you go straight in this angle

24:10to the creek,

24:12that's the spring down there.

24:14If you go right in here

24:16and dig another well,

24:18halfway you might not have to dig,

24:20but 30 feet.

24:22All we can do is start digging and see.

24:24This is the strongest point

24:26and it's right in line with the creek

24:28and we know there's underground water

24:30running right here,

24:32so we've got to dig this well right here.

24:34If you're a sick man on the day

24:36that comes to dig a well.

24:38With no money to hire a well digger,

24:40Tim sets up his right-hand man.

24:42Pull a full of beer,

24:44that'll get us started.

24:46Well, it'll get you started, won't it?

24:48What do you mean get me started?

24:50That'll get us started.

24:52I got something I got to do.

24:54I got to go meet somebody.

24:56Meet some investors or something

24:58to try to get us some money, right?

25:00Fire the old steel back up down in the woods

25:02and we can make the money to damn do this.

25:04At the same time,

25:06while it's fermenting down there

25:08and be digging a well.

25:10We still got to have some more money.

25:12I know and I've been trying to tell you that,

25:14but you don't want to listen.

25:16I don't like keeping tickling the dog

25:18on my backup plan,

25:20but the less people know about it,

25:22the safer we'll be.

25:24Get your shovel.

25:26I know Tim's the main man here,

25:28but I'm getting all the grunt work here.

25:30If you're going to dig a little well,

25:32I got to go.

25:34You're just not making me happy.

25:41It's too hot out here.

25:49Deputy Sheriff Chuck

25:51is deep in the wilderness

25:53at the edge of a mountain lake.

25:55He's working on a tip from an informant

25:57about moonshining activity in the area.

26:00Anywhere next to this lake here

26:02it could be a possible location.

26:04A lot of springs are coming in here.

26:06It's going to be pretty good.

26:09A fresh water supply

26:11is a moonshiner's holy grail.

26:13They have to have fresh water,

26:15so that's kind of one thing we look for.

26:18The lake is fed from the ice-cold springs

26:21that flow from the mountains above.

26:24It's the same water source

26:26that shiners use to run their stills

26:28and make their moonshine.

26:30We get a lot of tips from the hunters.

26:32They'll actually find some

26:34when they're going through the woods

26:36or the trail or different ways

26:38to get into the still.

26:40They'll have it marked with a string or something.

26:42We'll go check that out.

26:44But without help from people,

26:46it's hard to locate anything.

26:57It's a toothpick.

26:59Toothpick hell.

27:01Josh and Bill are finally preparing

27:02to set supporting beams

27:04to their underground still site.

27:06But with time running out

27:08and no plan in place for how to move forward,

27:10they're going to have to improvise.

27:12What about edging this bank up a little straighter?

27:15Yesterday and the day before, we're planning it.

27:18It's all tapered back right there.

27:20It's tapered back, yes, sir.

27:22But there won't be no frame under the corner

27:24if that's the case.

27:26We can work around it.

27:30I don't like half-assing things.

27:32It is kind of half-assing it.

27:34I'd really like to shave a layer off this entire side,

27:38at least a little bit.

27:40The wall in question tapers at the base

27:42by nearly a meter.

27:44Josh wants it straightened out

27:46before the beams are finally set.

27:48But to Bill, there's not enough time for perfection.

27:50Things need to get moving.

27:52The dirt being straight on this end

27:54was really not a detail.

27:56I was really...

27:58It's a wall.

28:00Do you want a wall in your house doing this?

28:03The walls in there don't do that.

28:05The walls over here don't do that.

28:08If you would have mentioned this yesterday

28:10when we had our piece of equipment here,

28:12ready to go,

28:14then no problem at all.

28:16You're seriously going to get off

28:18and argue with me this much

28:20over just straightening the wall?

28:22At this stage of the game, yes.

28:24It's beam-setting day.

28:26I know we're on a time frame.

28:28We're wasting more time arguing about it

28:30than doing it.

28:32Because I was serious when I told you last night

28:34that I'm finished shoveling dirt out of holes.

28:39We've been butting heads on this or that,

28:42and it's starting to drive me crazy.

28:44And I'm just ready to get this whole project done.

28:47But it is what it is.

28:49So I'm about ready to start slinging...

28:51I ain't lying.

28:53I ain't moving any of your... dirt, Josh.

28:57Oh, God almighty.

28:58If it ain't my one day,

29:00I'm fine with another.

29:02Damn!

29:17Oh, man.

29:19How's it going, man?

29:21It's beam-setting day.

29:25And this is not a turn job.

29:26So Josh and Bill call in for backup.

29:32I might set some beams.

29:36We just need help setting a few beams.

29:38We're ready to get started,

29:40and we kind of need another man to set a beam or two.

29:42All right.

29:47After many unsuccessful attempts

29:49at trying to recruit help...

29:51Me and Bill, we need an extra hand.

29:53Could you come help us out?

29:54It looked like Josh and Bill

29:56have finally got their man.

29:58Sweet.

30:00That's what I'm talking about.

30:03Their buddy, Vince.

30:05I'm not saying we'll cut any corners,

30:07but we gotta figure out

30:09exactly how we're gonna do this really fast.

30:11I agree with that.

30:13Our time is an issue.

30:15We really just need to be

30:17knocking it out and making it happen.

30:19Maybe I just miscalculated.

30:21Maybe we're just not rolling like we should.

30:22Maybe I just miscalculated.

30:24Maybe we're just not rolling

30:26like a weld-oil-tooling machine.

30:28Look out! Look out!

30:30I'm really kind of overwhelmed right now.

30:32I almost don't even know

30:34what direction to go in.

30:36It's really frustrating.

30:39Beautiful!

30:47Oh, Josh!

30:49You didn't see me

30:50get out of the hole.

30:52I thought you was paying attention.

30:54I was getting all the digging tools

30:56out of the hole.

30:58Are you smoking crack or what?

31:00My dick's running around here.

31:02You didn't cutify me

31:04and you've been scrapping, son.

31:06I was slinging the pickaxes out of the hole.

31:08That one about kissed Josh in the forehead.

31:10That's a big sign.

31:12We need to slow down

31:14and take our time on a couple important steps.

31:16Each team weighs hundreds of kilos.

31:18If Josh isn't on target,

31:21take the swing out of that thing.

31:23Josh, if you hit our beam,

31:25it's going to fall over.

31:30Ease it.

31:32Hold, hold, hold.

31:35All right, right there, right there.

31:37That's good.

31:41Right there.

31:43Hold on.

31:45Josh, come down the hole with us.

31:47I can't hold it.

31:50Let's go.

31:52Watch out, watch out, watch out.

31:54Back on Tim's property

31:56under the hot Virginia sun,

31:58Tickle is getting heated up himself.

32:02Got a great big old pile of dirt,

32:04but it don't seem like I went nowhere.

32:07If we was making moonshine,

32:09we could have that money to spend easily,

32:11but we're not making it

32:13because Tim don't want to take the risk.

32:15But it could be paying for this

32:17and this could be done in one afternoon.

32:18This is going to take me forever to dig.

32:22I'm sitting here digging it all by my damn self.

32:27Meanwhile, Tim is making moves.

32:30He's evaluated his options

32:32and has decided on the best place

32:34to hide his sash of moonshine,

32:36a nearby tobacco farm.

32:39This tobacco field right here,

32:41that's what I'm thinking about.

32:45It'd be a good spot to put the moonshine hash

32:48and put it in here.

32:50You want to be able to get to it

32:52real fast and easy.

32:54That's the number one thing.

32:56You don't want to go through a lot of gates

32:58and open doors and have to talk to people

33:00or people can see you or nothing like that.

33:03The other thing is just having it

33:05real out in the open

33:07and it's kind of like it's no man's claim.

33:09And if you was in that area

33:11and somebody comes in

33:13and tries to frame you up on it,

33:15then you just tell them,

33:16I don't own the land.

33:18My hands wasn't on it.

33:20You didn't catch me with it.

33:22It's just sitting there.

33:24It's going to be a couple of weeks

33:26before they even come in here to do anything.

33:28Late summer tobacco harvest

33:30is still weeks away.

33:32Until Tim finds something more permanent,

33:34this is the perfect place

33:36to hide his shine.

33:38I wanted to sit them in between here.

33:40You put them in between right there,

33:42you can't see them things from the air.

33:44I mean, you can't hardly see it

33:47Right now, I don't tell Tickle

33:49everything I'm doing.

33:51We just kind of keep it quiet.

33:53It keeps Tickle out of trouble.

33:55We don't want him to know everything.

33:57It's hot out here.

33:59It's been a long time

34:01since I sweated like this.

34:04This right here just ain't good business.

34:07I'm out here killing myself

34:09and he's riding around

34:11probably in the A.C. in his car

34:13talking to somebody

34:14something.

34:18I've never actually heard of anyone

34:20hiding in a tobacco field.

34:22So if a plane's coming over,

34:24they're looking in the woods.

34:26They're looking for vehicles,

34:28barns, you know, stuff like that.

34:30There's always a chance

34:32the law can sneak up on you

34:34so a good moonshiner knows his escape routes.

34:37If things go bad,

34:39somebody comes in on me

34:41and I got this truck right here,

34:42I can get to the end of the field,

34:44I can back up and hit the woods that way

34:46or I can go that way and hit the road.

34:48This truck is like a tractor

34:50so I can go anywhere.

34:57Tim's been good to me

34:59but this ain't making me no money

35:01and that's the whole reason

35:03I got into this game right here.

35:05It'd be different

35:07if he was out here helping me

35:09but he's not.

35:10It's really getting to the point

35:12that I just don't know what I'm gonna do.

35:15I'm tired of this.

35:41They cover me up.

35:48Tim could be out here

35:50helping me with this

35:52but he's not doing it.

35:54He's off running around somewhere else.

35:56I'm digging this big-ass hole

35:58trying to find us some water for the well.

36:00This is just bull****.

36:06What's going on?

36:08Been digging a damn hole.

36:10I thought you were gonna dig a well.

36:12You're gonna dig a hole this deep

36:14you need somebody here to help you

36:16and I ain't got nobody here to help me.

36:18Well, I had to go do something.

36:20Well, I know but you always gotta go do something.

36:22Because I'm busy.

36:24Yeah, you're busy but I'm sitting here

36:26getting stuck with all this kind of work.

36:28I don't like keeping Tickle and Aquabat to back up him

36:30but it's a way to protect all of us.

36:32Seems like I always get the hard part.

36:34Well, somebody's gotta do it.

36:36Yeah, somebody's gotta do it

36:38and it's always me.

36:40I'm trying to get investors.

36:42I could have been making money today

36:44doing something else

36:46instead I'm digging a hole and I ain't made nothing.

36:48I'm trying to get investors.

36:50You keep trying

36:52but it ain't happened yet.

36:54I like Tim.

36:56He showed me a whole lot about this business.

36:58I'm wondering if people might want to

37:00drink my moonshine instead of his.

37:02I know how to do it now

37:04but I tell you something's got to improve

37:06and it's got to improve pretty quick.

37:10650 kilometers to the southwest,

37:13new moonshiners Josh and Bill

37:15are in a race against time

37:17to get their posts and beams set.

37:19Beautiful!

37:21If they can't get the framework erected

37:23by the end of the day,

37:25they won't be able to get their site finished

37:27by the start of the Plum Hollow Music Festival.

37:29Keep the pressure on it! Keep the pressure on it!

37:31Hold up! I can't hold it!

37:33Let's go! Watch out!

37:35Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!

37:37Watch out!

37:38God dog!

37:40You should have just let me pick it up.

37:42I'm fixing to.

37:44You're trying to get killed.

37:46I really didn't have everything

37:48shored up like I needed to

37:50and as a builder I know better than that

37:52that I was cutting corners

37:54and trying to get this thing knocked out.

37:56I'm really frustrated that that beam fell.

37:58That should have never happened.

38:00I'm just glad nobody got hurt just then

38:02because that was pretty dangerous.

38:04We're going to have to put braces on it.

38:06We've been fighting so much and arguing so much

38:08about what to do.

38:10We have to get it done.

38:12200 kilometers to the northeast,

38:14Mark and Jeff are getting ready

38:16for what they hope

38:18is the first successful shine run

38:20of the season.

38:22We're getting warm here, Mark.

38:24Yeah, we're getting fired up here.

38:26Boy, that's looking.

38:28Now that's doing some good pulling.

38:30Along to help them make repairs

38:32is legendary moonshiner Jim Tom.

38:34They've done everything they can

38:36to prevent any further delays.

38:38They can't afford another bad run.

38:40I feel confident that we're going to get

38:42to run this moonshine today.

38:44We're going to miss around the clock.

38:4624-7.

38:52This is the hardest part of it.

38:55When it gets right down time to run,

38:57that's when you get to feeling the most uneasy.

39:00If you get caught making moonshine,

39:02you're going to jail.

39:09I've received a tip

39:11that the possible location of a steel,

39:13we're going to go see what we've got up here.

39:16This area in here's got a good water supply

39:18coming in to the holler up here.

39:21So anywhere where there's a natural spring

39:23coming down the mountain,

39:25that's kind of what we look for.

39:33We're going to get a good run

39:35of this moonshine today.

39:37Oh, man, that one went together perfect.

39:39Hold what you got. Hold what you got.

39:41It's been a full day with the beams today.

39:43Just buy it all ahead,

39:45but we've got a bunch of men.

39:47That went together perfect.

39:49I can't wait to put that metal down.

39:58A lot of them's used a lot of lead.

40:00It's a lot of lead.

40:02It's a lot of lead.

40:04It's a lot of lead.

40:06It's a lot of wood to heat their steel.

40:08You get a little smoke from that,

40:10that's something else we look for.

40:13Now listen, this sounds solid.

40:16Now listen to this.

40:18Hear it ring?

40:20That mirror's up to here now in this.

40:22All that steam, it says,

40:24I got to go somewhere, escape.

40:26Quick as that hits that cold water there,

40:28there she comes.

40:30I'm going to get a hot chair in just a second.

40:32You can smell the mash if it's fermenting good.

40:34It's got a sweet smell to it.

40:36You'll know it when you smell it.

40:38Nothing else will smell like an operating liquor store.

40:42We're getting close to getting some product out of this thing.

40:46She's thumping.

40:54You want to be able to catch them after steel

40:56and them actually have finished product.

40:58That would always make a better case.

41:01There she is.

41:02Now I'm going to be honest and truthful with you.

41:04I'd rather do this than eat a steak.

41:11We've got some black pipe here

41:13that usually they'll run it in the spring out through the woods.

41:16This is definitely a good site.

41:19Try and pull out, Mark.

41:21Show what you think.

41:33Just right.

41:35We are going to have some good stuff right there.

41:47I couldn't have done no better myself.

41:54It looks like to me an old site.

41:56There's not been nobody here in a while.

41:59By the looks of things,

42:00they probably stayed here a couple of weeks at a time.

42:07They've moved on.

42:10We'll get them next time.

42:15Next time on Moonshotters.

42:18Wild lightning.

42:20There's thunderstorms coming in.

42:23If it rains, that's really going to mess us up.

42:25Not if it rains, when it rains.

42:27It's going to rain.

42:30We've got to do something to make money.

42:32Tickle.

42:34That's the problem we've got right now is tickle.

42:36There's a whiskey.

42:38For that it ain't too high.

42:40Everything's not roses making moonshine.

42:42It ain't.

42:43No, it ain't.

42:44Did that really happen?

42:45Yes, sir.

42:46That really happened?

42:47Oh, my God.

42:48This is a major catastrophe.

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