Barnwood Builders

Mark and the guys work to dismantle a barn built by Abe Lincoln's uncle around 1830. Can they save the 180 year-old logs? Back on the Boneyard, they use old tobacco timbers to build a new barn in the Appalachian dogtrot style.

The guys rescue a huge double pen barn in St. Meinrad, Indiana. It's the biggest dogtrot style barn they've ever faced. They have to fight through modern layers of tin and barnwood to get to the incredible, pioneer era hand hewn beams. When it's done, Mark pays a visit to the nearly completed Lincoln Cabin.

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.

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

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.

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.

Mark Bowe and the guys take down a West Virginia smokehouse and a half-barn nearby 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.

Mark Bowe and the guys return to their roots in Asheville, North Carolina, where they have one day to build a log well house in the driving rain. Then, they must repair a severely damaged log home nearby while Mark visits two of his favorite log cabins.

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.