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Barnwood Builders

Season 1 • Episode 2 • Rescuing a Massive Barn, Finishing the Lincoln Cabin

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Barnwood Builders Season 1, Episode 2: Rescuing a Massive Barn, Finishing the Lincoln Cabin

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Episodes

9 episodes
1

Taking Down the Lincoln Cabin and Building a Dog Trot

Mark and the crew work to dismantle a barn built by Abe Lincoln's uncle; old tobacco timbers are used to build a new barn in the Appalachian dogtrot style.

60 min
2

Rescuing a Massive Barn, Finishing the Lincoln Cabin

60 min
3

Repurposing Every Beam from a Pennsylvania Bank Barn

The guys take down a Pennsylvania Bank Barn in hopes of recovering the Long Beams and Huge Sleeper Logs that lay below. They are up against the weather, the machines malfunctioning and the weight of the logs. Mark pays a visit to the finished King Cabin and gives the owners a bench made with some of the repurposed wood from the Bank Barn.

60 min
4

Salvaging a Homestead Corn Crib with a Hometown Barn Raising

The guys salvage a homestead corn crib with a good old fashioned barn raising.

60 min
5

Wading with Alligators to Build a Two-Story Hunting Lodge in Florida

Mark Bowe and the guys take the bones of an old Virginia log home down to Florida, where they turn it into a two-story hunting lodge. Mark makes mouth-blown wavy glass for the windows and dives in an alligator pond to get some long leaf pine for the floors.

60 min
6

Transforming a Shipping Container into a Portable Barnwood Cabin

Mark and the guys turn a used shipping container into a portable barnwood cabin. They use welding torches and old logs to transform the steel container into a home. Mark searches for the perfect red barnwood to cover it. Then they try to lift the container cabin onto a trailer to prove its really portable.

60 min
7

Turning a West Virginia Smokehouse into a Modern Bunkhouse in the Florida Swamp

Mark Bowe and the guys take down a West Virginia smokehouse and a half-barn nearby. They weave the logs together in Florida to create a bunkhouse for their client's kids. They cut down two trees to use as wood for the porch, and go on a catch and release wild hog hunt.

60 min
8

Fighting the Elements to Build a Well House, and Repairing a Damaged Log Home

Mark Bowe and the guys return to their roots in Asheville, North Carolina. They have one day to build a log well house in the driving rain. Once it's up, they have to repair a severely damaged log home nearby. Along the way, Mark visits two of his favorite log cabins.

60 min
9

Moving a Pre-Civil War Log Cabin from West Virginia to Tennessee

Mark Bowe and the guys take down a pre-Civil War log cabin in Braxton County, West Virginia. They take it back to Lewisburg to refurbish the logs, then rebuild it for a client who collects historic homes in Elizabethton, Tennessee.

60 min