All language subtitles for Homestead.Rescue.S12E00.The.Lost.Builds.1080p.WEB.h264-FREQUENCY[EZTVx.to]_[English] (SUBRIP)

[instrumental music playing]

[Matt] We worked
so hard, you know.

It's good to stop and smell
the homesteads.

[Marty] Did you just say,

it's good to smell
the homesteads?

-[laughs]
-[Marty] Anyway.

It's easy to look back over
all the homesteads

and all the work we've done

and remember
the pinnacle moments.

But, it's also cool

to think about all

the moments in between

that nobody else
has ever seen.

[Misty] Some of these moments

are kind of mind-blowing.

But big and small,
they're all memorable.

[narrator] For nearly
ten years,

the Raneys have travelled
North America end to end...

We've been
on this road before.

[narrator] ...visiting nearly
every state in the country...

[Marty] Here we go!

[narrator] ...to improve
the off-grid lives
of homesteaders.

We have a future here
and we didn't really...

[narrator] It takes ingenuity
homestead hacks

and good old-fashioned
help from friends.

[Marty]
Three feet, two feet, stop!

[narrator] And for the Raneys

what didn't make it
into the rescue episodes

it is inspiring and important
to them as what did.

-[Marty] No brakes, no brakes,
no brakes!
-[engine sputtering]

Whoa!

[narrator] On this episode...

[Marty] Fore!

[narrator] ...the Raneys
reflect on their

most memorable
unseen moments from Florida...

-[Marty] It's a rattlesnake!
-[man] Yeah.

[narrator] ...to Alaska...

[Matt] What is better for
bear defense
than using an actual bear?

[narrator] ...to Hawaii.

-[horn honking]
-[Marty] Oh, Lord!

My mom, fifty years in Alaska
just moved to your island.

[narrator] Lost scenes
from rescues that have
enriched the Raney's lives...

Good job!

[narrator] ...and inspired
them to keep fighting

for homesteaders
across the country.

Me and my dad,
we started working on it.

[Matt] We should build this
into the treehouse
you always dreamed of.

Lift.

[instrumental music playing]

-[sheep bleating]
-[Marty] We've been
to nearly all of the 50 states

and every cross roads.
Every hole in the wall,

postage stamp, little town
in America

has a story.

[Matt] When we're
on a homestead,

so many things happen

that nobody ever gets to see.

And we've been doing
this for eight years,

visiting close to
90 homesteads.

[narrator] Last year,
the Raneys added

a new state to their list

with a daunting rescue
in Central Florida

where they find
the Hass family

besieged by the swamp.

[Marty] Nice to meet you all.

[narrator] Known for
tropical storms
and dangerous wildlife,

-[lion roaring]
-it's a region that challenges
the unfamiliar Raneys.

[Misty] They have
free standing water,

filled with gators.

I'm living in fear of
alligators every day,
by the way.

On that homestead, right,
there was a what,

12 footer,
in their front yard.

-[sighs] It's crazy.
-[Matt] Totally insane.

[narrator] And in this
lost scene...

[Marty] Hey buddy,
flip that over.

[narrator]
...they come face to face
with a new adversary

that reinforces their respect
for mother nature.

[Brian speaking]

[Marty] What did you find?

[intense music playing]

[Marty] In Florida
there was a this herpetologist

roaming around that homestead.

I have met more than a few
reptile experts

and every single one of them
has been bit.

[Brian speaking]

[Marty] Twenty feet?
Copy that.

[Misty] What?

[Marty] What the...

-Oh my...
-[Matt] It's a...
it's a rattlesnake.

[snake hisses]

[Marty] Oh, my God!

This here is the
eastern diamondback.

This is the largest pit viper
in the United States.

[Marty] No. What?

[narrator] Found in the South
Eastern United States,

the eastern diamondback
rattlesnake is considered

the most venomous snake
in North America.

With a maximum size
of eight feet,

they can strike two-thirds
of their body length.

Though most of the average
2000 bites per year
do not result to death

a single diamondback bite
can be fatal due to the toxins
in their venom.

They kill red blood cells,
cause severe tissue damage.

You just found it 20-feet
from the garden?

[Brian] Yes, sir.

[Marty] That herpetologist,

he walked out with that snake
on our exact path.

Crazy.

[Brain speaking]

Wait, aren't you
afraid of snakes?

Everyone is afraid of snakes.

Just count your blessings,
you live in Alaska.

Six hundred and fifty thousand
square miles,

12,000 rivers,
three million lakes,

the tallest mountain
in North America,

a hundred thousand glaciers
and did I mention

not one snake.

Ah! Alaska!

Home sweet home.

I'd love to come over
and shake your hand

-and say thank you...
-[Misty] It's rattling.

[Marty] But the rattlesnake's
rattling, so...

[Brian speaking]

[Misty] He's saying
goodbye. [laughs]

He's waving goodbye.

[narrator] This wasn't their
only memorable encounter

on the Hass family's
homestead.

[Misty] We've met a lot
of people over the years,

but one of the best,
cutest, sweetest

little homesteaders
was Mini Marty.

[narrator] And in this
lost scene,

Marty learns that
even though this is their

first Florida rescue

the Raney's impact
on homesteaders
is far-reaching.

All right, so this is
completely crazy.

Today one of the volunteers
brought his son to work.

-What's you name?
-Logan.

This kid is wearing
a white cowboy hat,
a white handkerchief

and a white shirt.

He reminds me of somebody,

I just can't
put my finger on it.

Now, I don't want to get
personal here but...

looks like we're dressed
the same.

Because I like Marty Raney.

You like Marty Raney?

Why do you like Marty Raney?

Because I like his hat,
his moustache.

How are doing
on growing a moustache?

Say hello to your
new little brother.

I have signed
the adoption papers.

For us? Misty.

Misty, we're finally
part of the family.

It's finally legal.

[Marty] I'm leaving Alaska
in a couple of days.

You think your mom and dad
will let you to come back
to Alaska and work for me?

Um, she said yes.

-[Marty] Who said yes?
-[Logan] My mom.

Your mom just said yes?

Let me think about that.

Okay? Jump off this log.

When we started travelling
across North America
visiting homesteaders

I never ever dreamed

that young people
like this would

come along on the journey
with us.

Thank you for that.

The greatest reward
that I have taken away
from all of this

is the fact that young people
enjoy it.

So I hope we keep
inspiring more people

and maybe someday
the entire country

will be wearing white shirts,

white scarfs
and white cowboy hats.

Hey, it could happen.

That homestead was cool.

[Marty] And speaking of places
that have a pretty cool story,

I'm reminded of Tupelo.

[mimicking strumming guitar]

[Matt] Ask me if I like

the Tupelo hardware store.

[Misty] Do you like
the Tupelo hardware store?

-Uh-uh-huh.
-[Misty laughing]

[narrator] A region known
for its fertile farmland
and humid summers,

the Raneys travel
to rural Mississippi

to rescue the Hill family,

where the team fights
to keep a struggling

two-acre micro
homestead viable.

[Marty] So it's not healthy
for humans

-and it's probably not
healthy for animals as well.
-No.

[narrator] But when the Raneys
find themselves short on parts

while building Marty's
"Heartbreak goatel..."

[Marty] Let's go!

[narrator] In this
lost footage...

[Marty] I'm all shook up.

[narrator] ...they retrace
legendary steps to uncover
a piece of music history.

What I like is
a hardware store
that sells guitars.

Once upon a time
a mother took her little boy
into that store.

He wanted to buy a BB gun
and she was saying no.

And then the guy
behind the counter said,

"Why don't you buy
this guitar,

Elvis"?

[instrumental music playing]

[Connie] We are known
of course for where
Elvis got his first guitar

on his birthday in 1946.

This is known
as the Elvis counter.

It was inside this counter.

-Where was that--
Was this--
-I tell all our visitors,

rock and roll
started right there.

-[Misty] Oh my God!
-[Marty] Right here?

[Connie] Right there.
You're standing on it.

[Misty] We all gotta
stand on there.

Give me your best
Elvis dance.

[Marty] Elvis? Oh, man.

I'm not a...
I'm not much of a...

Whatever you do,
don't film his legs.

[dance music playing]

-[Matt] Wow.
-[Misty] Mom had tickets
to go see Elvis

and she got grounded
by grandma bad.

So we're helping out
a family that's got four kids.

Maybe we could buy

a guitar or two
for these four kids.

We would love to give you one
to take home to the children.

-What do you think?
-[Misty] I love it.

-[Marty] That's pretty
nice of you.
-[Matt] Wow.

Well, it's pretty epic
to go to a hardware store

for a set of hinges

and we left there
with two guitars

-that they gifted us.
-[Marty] Yeah.

That was a very nice gesture.

-[Misty] We gotta shop.
-[Marty] Yeah, we do.

-We gotta shop.
-Y'all got three buildings
to shop in.

[Misty] Okay.

[Marty] We got our
money's worth

when we went to Tupelo.

[Misty] So, I need
a gate latch.

-Do you have like,
any chain?
-[man] Yeah.

[Misty] Little lighter?

We left with two guitars.

Little did we know
at the time,

they were gonna
come in handy

because we used them
as a distraction

for the homesteaders
so they wouldn't

see those cabins come in.

[Marty] We thought that
we'd get you guys
a guitar.

-[woman] Oh, my God!
-I'll take any chord.

[boy] G.

[Misty] Those guys couldn't
make the hairpin turn
and we were just like

song after song,
they're still not making it.

So another song...

[Matt] It's so cold,
you guys. [laughs]

[indistinct chatter]

It's just funny
how everything...

it always works out.

[Marty] This company
came forward and donated

each of the oldest kids
a place to live.

I'm...I'm like, yeah.

It's so appreciated.

Thank you.

[narrator] Just a few
hundred miles away

in neighboring Tennessee,

the Raneys recue
the Robinson family.

[woman] Welcome
to our homestead.

[narrator] Working to make
them more self-sufficient

on their ten-acre homestead...

That looks like a 700 foot
water line.

[narrator] ...the Raneys
need lumber to build
a workshop

for Corbin and Donovan.

It's a little small.

You can't stand up.

[Matt] We are on a homestead
in Tennessee

and I turned a BP chain saw

into the classic Alaska
chain saw mill.

[narrator] And in this
lost footage...

Things are gonna
start coming together.

[narrator] Matt passes down
and invaluable tool

to the young homesteaders.

[Matt] You ready?

The way this works is

you gotta be able to fit
a log in between

two pieces of all thread.

One through here,

one through
about right here...

An Alaska chain saw mill

is something that you build
when you wanted to be able
to mill lumber

without a mill.

You take a log

-and you put a big plank
over the top of it.
-[drilling]

Your saw just has
all thread going through
the bar

and as long as your board
is flat with that top board

you let that saw rip,

slide it across that flat
plank, you're gonna have
a nice flat cut

all the way through
to the end.

You don't have to buy
anything from the store.

You don't to have to like,
a branded like,

"Oh I got this special
chainsaw mill." No.

If you have some nuts,
washers,

you don't really
need that much

to make a chainsaw mill.

They are slow,
but if you are remote

and you need anything
dimensional or flat,

that mill does work.

-[whirring]
-Look at this thing.

Have cut anything yet?

[machine starts]

[Matt] We've done
a lot of crazy hacks
over the years.

They help you
get the job done.

And they literally
combine like

so many different concepts

that you could do

the work of many people
with just two hands.

[engine whirring]

[Matt] Flip it.
Corbin, grab on.

You know what?
I mean, it cut pretty nice.

[Misty] It's really special
to see

generational
homesteaders, right?

I bought this place in 1945.

[horn honking]

[Marty] Oh, Lord!

That's my mom, right there.

-Nice to meet you.
-Hey.

[instrumental music playing]

[Misty] Over the years,
we've met all kinds of people

and that's a huge
part of it, right?

Just all the history there,

-all the stories.
-Oh yeah.

Some of the little things
that happen every day

on the homesteads,

things that they
never put on TV.

[narrator] The Raneys
have travelled

thousands of miles
across the United states.

[woman] Thank you
for everything.

[narrator] Though cameras
document every step
of the process...

Sweet.

[narrator] ...not all makes it
into the episode.

And when the Raneys rescued
the Bowers family

in the green mountains
of Vermont.

Welcome to Vermont!

Marty Raney.

-Brian.
-Brian.

-Lara.
-Lara.

Mark.

[Misty] Remember the time
in Vermont where we show up,

there is no access
to the homestead

except for that little
rickety foot bridge, right?

[Marty] You built all of this

crossing that bridge
across the water

-and packed it up the hill?
-By hand.

[narrator] They must help
the couple restore access

to the remote homestead.

[Marty] Good job!

[narrator] And in this
never before seen footage,

a trip to source lumber
for the new bridge

gives Misty a firsthand look
at one of the oldest mills
in New England.

Your father,
is he around?

Yeah, he's in the mill.

Oh, yeah!

We've met all kinds of people

travelling all across America.

One that stands out
in my mind,

is the coolest

mill guy
in the entire world, Floyd.

-Yeah.
-I'm Misty.

-Yeah.
-What's your name?

-Floyd.
-Floyd, nice to meet you.

What a beautiful place
you have.

It is.

-It's beautiful!
-Yeah.

He's 102 years old.

Still working?

Yeah, with his son.

I've had 25 birthdays.

[both laugh]

-Huh?
-[Misty] Yeah.

-Me too.
-I was born on a leap year.

-Are you serious?
-Nineteen twenty.

Figure it out.

[both laugh]

I bought this place,
I got discharged

the second of November,
1945.

I bought it the 17th.

This is actually
of the old saw mills,

actually it's one of the last
of this type.

[narrator] Since the advent
of the circular saw

in the industrial revolution

milling technology
has continuously evolved
over time.

While today's mills have
highly efficient

computer controlled machines,

the saws themselves
are very similar

to their
obsolete predecessors.

Many older mills
like Floyd Van Alstyne's

are still fully functional.

A testament
to the craftsmanship

and ingenuity of the time.

Man, I wish you guys
could've seen that mill.

So much history,
so much life and
stories and love.

[Floyd] This mill here
was made up in Montpelier,
Vermont.

It's probably older
than I am.

Yeah.

[machine whirring]

It was like one of the most
unbelievable things
I've ever seen.

And it's so terrifying.

And so loud.

I need lumber.
I need four by four posts,

some one by and two by fours.

It's always really
special to see

generational
homesteaders, right?

They're still a family owned
and operated business.

Like, come on.

Was his dad working on it
that day, too?

I mean, man,
there's longevity
in that family.

[Misty] Okay, so,
go get the long four by fours,

two by fours,
and some two by six rafters.

[instrumental music playing]

[Marty] How crazy is it
on the road of homesteading
that we've been on,

we show up in Ohio.

A really nice family

decided to build their home
out of...

30,000 tires.

[narrator] Nestled
in the dense farmland,

populating Ohio's
central region...

This is the craziest
thing I've ever seen.

[narrator] ...the Raneys help
the Broadhead family

fulfill their desperate need

to reinforce their home

made almost
entirely of tires.

Straight out.

-That's straight out.
-[Misty] Straight.

-[Marty] Okay.
-[Misty] Wait!

-Holy crap!
-[Misty] That's good.

A house built out of
30,000 tires?

Covered with cob.

Covered with cob,
an earth home.

[narrator] The ancient
building material
known as cob

is still used around
the world today

due to it's low cost,
sustainability

and ease of application.

With a long lifespan
in a variety of climates,

cob provides
excellent thermal mass,

keeping home interiors
warm in frigid winters

and cool in blistering
summer heat.

This is it, a little mud
and a little straw,

they bind together
and then smear it
on the building.

Kind of cool.

And that's when we found
the "Cob father".

[narrator] And in this
extended scene,

Marty meets an off-grid expert

who teaches him
an essential bit

of homestead ingenuity.

-[Marty] All right.
Who are you?
-I'm Mudd.

Mudd.
Your mom and dad

saw you come out

-of the womb.
-They named me Mudd.

[Marty] Let me guess,
it's because you--

[Mudd] It's because
I build houses out of mud.

-For real?
-All over the country,

Caribbean, teaching people
how to build houses

from sandy clay soil
and straw in their own yards.

-[Marty] For real?
-For real. Yes.

[Mudd] There's houses
700 years old

in Yemen, seven stories tall,
made out of this stuff

and people still live in it.

-Well, you are
the "Cob father".
-Yeah.

[laughs]

-[Marty] Let's see the
"Cob father" at work.
-[Mudd] All right.

We got our mud,
we got our straw.

And if we're feeling dainty
and we don't wanna get
all muddy,

we actually go like this
with the tarp

-and squish it in.
-Oh no, that's not
what I want to see.

-[all laughing]
-[Mudd] That's right.
I thought you'd say that.

-[Marty] Shoes are coming off.
-[Mudd] You got it.

Anytime someone
shows up on a homestead
with their craft

that they really believe in

it's really
kind of interesting.
It's exciting, right?

-[Mudd] This is my wife.
-The "Cob mother".

Yeah.

-And this is Sarah Mudd,
she's our...
-The "Cob daughter".

[Misty] The "Cob father"
shows up with his family.

It's fun. You're mixing
with your feet,

you're mixing with your hands.

And at one point
you smeared,

God knows what's in the mud,
across Matt.

[Marty] Matt!

Dude, this is epic.

-All I got to say Matt is,
good job.
-[laughs]

[all laughing]

This guy and his family
travelled across America

smearing mud on the surface
of a building,

swearing it's the best thing
to put on it.

It's a technique
that's been used for
a thousands of years.

[Mudd] Once you get your
hands in the mud,

it's addictive.

The Cob father,
he made us a batch of mud

-we couldn't refuse.
-[Misty laughs]

[narrator] Coming up...

[Marty] They had an old truck.

The problem is,
it was quite a
drive down there

and the old truck
had no brakes.

I'm really nervous
about the brakes.

Ready!

-[Marty] Uh-oh!
-[engine sputtering]

Brakes are off.

We lost it!

The brakes, the brakes.

[instrumental music playing]

There's more things
that happen every day

on these homesteads
that are just like

stuff that nobody
ever will see.

Remember that homestead
in Oregon

in the Emerald Valley,
the Knighten family?

So there was something
a little bit outside

of the main focus
of the homestead

but it was super important

to see
the young homesteader, Liv.

[narrator] In America's
Pacific northwest,

hit with an annual rainfall
of up to 90 inches per year

the Raneys battle Oregon's
coastal climate

while rescuing
the Knighten family,

whose patriarch is in recovery

from a life threatening
accident.

Andy had his electrocution.

What?
What electrocution?

12,000 volts, buddy.

And you survived it?

Well, I died.

[narrator] With Andy
debilitated

the Raneys fortified
the infrastructure

from washing away
on the homestead.

[Marty] People on the bridge!

It's forever etched
in my brain, Misty driving a

frame of a car
with no motor across
this sketchy bridge.

[Marty] Watch out, honey.
Watch out. Whoa!

[narrator] And in this
never before seen footage,

Matt takes on
a personal project

to fulfill the youngest
homesteader's dream.

All right. Let's talk
about this treehouse
for a second here.

This thing is looking
pretty unfinished.

-Yeah.
-[Matt] But also
looks pretty awesome.

Not everything on a homestead
is all about livestock

and gardens.

Sometimes you have
to do something

that inspires the homesteader

to want to be around more.

So that when they're done
doing their chores,

they have a really nice place

where they can go
and hang out.

Me and my dad,
we started working on it

but then stopped.

-Yeah, and that was
a terrible injury too.
-Yes.

I think it's time that
we start working
on this thing again.

What do you think?

I really have been
wanting to finish it.

Come on, I'll follow you.

So Liv is an artist.

Liv worked with her dad
trying to build a tree house.

She actually wanted to
turn it into an art studio.

This is like big enough
for a tree house, house.

You could live in here.

I do plan on sleeping in here.

What's with these walls?

[Liv] This is kind of
where we stopped.

We were building this wall
for right there.

[Matt] I mean, we should start
closing this in

and build this into
the treehouse

you always dreamed of.

-Are you excited?
-[chuckles] Yeah.

I am very excited
for my treehouse
to get done.

I'm excited for me
and my friends

to be able to hang out in it.

-[Matt] You see this
right here?
-[Liv] Yeah.

It's basically like
getting your brace on there

before you stand the wall up

and you don't have to worry
about that wall falling off.

[Matt grunting] All right.
Lift! Lift! Lift!

Think there's any spiders?

Probably.

We stood that wall up.
Nice!

We're taking out this wall.

-It's actually
supporting this roof.
-[Liv] Yeah.

[Matt] So we're gonna use
these two by sixes.

[drilling]

-[Liv] Oh.
-[Matt] Pull it back.

How many spiders
am I getting?

[Liv] So many.

All right. Perfect.

-Look, it's like
really open.
-Yeah.

We knew it was important
to you and Liv.

When we left that homestead,

that treehouse is
one of the coolest treehouses

we've ever built.

[Misty] This is cool!

Oh, it has a door!

Go for it. Go in!

[Liv] Oh...

[Misty] It's... what?

[Marty] Now,
the word on the street is,

-you're an artist.
-[Liv] Yeah.

[Marty] I saw some of it.

-So--
-There's one
right there. [laughs]

What kind of medium
do you usually work in?

Acrylic.

-She looked so happy.
-Yeah.

She gifted me a painting.
It hangs on my wall today.

That's cool.

You were Liv Knighten's

knight in shining armor, Matt.

-[Marty] Is it cool?
-I love this.

This is amazing.

Oh that's the biggest smile
I've seen since we got here.
It makes me happy.

[narrator] But not all of
the Raney's unseen projects

go off without a hitch.

Seven hundred miles northeast
of Oregan's Emerald valley,

and over 250 miles
from the nearest major city,

the Raneys rescued the
Welchers in Montana.

Could you guys have picked
a further out in the middle
of nowhere place to live?

[narrator] Where the family
needs logs for a new cabin

transported to a lower parcel
of land.

[Marty] They had an old truck.

The problem is,

it was quite a drive
down there,

and the old truck
had no brakes.

[narrator] And in this
lost scene...

[Marty] Oh! The brakes,
the brakes, the brakes!

[narrator] ...Marty learns
that when working on
a remote homestead...

[Marty] Not good.

[narrator] ...for better
or worse

you have to make do
with the tools available.

[Marty] It was next
of the last day
before we left.

I was running out of time.

So the fastest way to get
materials from point "A",

the top, to point "B",
the bottom was just

get it down there
on the back of that old truck.

I'm really nervous
about the brakes.

I'm thinking about putting
a rock behind it as a drag.

What do you think
of that idea?

It's a good idea.

[Marty whistles]

[Marty] So I thought,
Oh, I'll be really smart.

I'll tie a big rock
on the back,

it'll serve as a drag.

What in the
H-E-Double hockey stick!

[Marty] Welcome to my life.

-[engine starts]
-Ready!

Drive.

[intense music playing]

The wipers work.

[laughs]

Whoo!

Nothing can
go wrong until...

the chain came off the rock.

-And then you were just...
-Gone?

[suspenseful music playing]

[Marty] Uh-oh! No brakes.

Oh the gate!

[engine whirring]

Whoo! [laughing] Whoo!

Uh-oh.

Where's my rock?

Oh! No brakes,
no brakes, no brakes!

Oh.

[engine sputtering]

We lost it!

No brakes.

[intense music playing]

[engine stops]

That was not good.

[Misty] You could've got hurt

or worse.

And I'm glad you're okay.

I do have to say,
your version of brakes...

Rocks!

Your version of brakes
is like,

you're bringing it back
to the Flintstone days.

'Cause who ties a rock
to the back of a truck

and thinks that's gonna go.

[Marty] I'm just saying
it was a little sketchy.

[Matt] I think we're gonna
really have our work cut out
for us.

Holy smokes!

Aggressive.

Look at that thing.

[Matt] Seven strand
electric fence,

that's gonna protect the bees
from a bear encounter.

[instrumental music playing]

[Marty] There's 50 states.

When you think about
all the cool little towns

and what they're known for,

we've got the Oregon trail,
they've got Lewis & Clark.

Abraham Lincoln's property.

But we've been places
that nobody has ever seen.

It's pretty epic.

[narrator] Stretching
the continent,

the Raneys travelled
to North America's most
extreme region, Alaska,

where the artic temperatures
and sudden flooding

wreak havoc on Kristi Adams's
remote homestead.

[Marty] Oh, yeah!

[narrator] And while Marty
digs a new well to supply
clean water to her cabin.

[Kristi] Flood water is coming
through the outhouse and out.

-Ouch. You can't even
prepare for it.
-No.

-That's terrible.
-Yeah, it's gross.

[narrator] In this
lost footage...

So, most people
put a pump in like this.

We're gonna put this pump
in the bottom...

like this.

[narrator] He brings
an out of the box idea
to the installation

of the well pump.

We don't want this
to get full of sand, right?

But there is some
homestead hacks

on how to keep
sand from getting in here.

More than one well driller
has told me

that one of the best screens

that you can put
on a well pump

to protect that pump
from getting sand in it

is a garment that women
might wear more than men,

but hey,

it's the 21st century...

[sighs] I guess it's up to me.

I'll do whatever it takes
and wear

whatever it takes

to get the job done.

[Misty] Oh, my God. [laughs]

Dad, I can't unsee this.

[Matt] Wait, did it go
all the way up and around

and come down the other side?

[Marty] Please slide it
over the pump.

-[Misty] Dad, you wear nylon?
-[Marty] Hey.

-Have you
been wearing--
-There are some things

I've not told you kids,

but from time to time
they come in handy

when I'm putting in
well pumps.

[Misty] Dad, we have
so many questions.

[laughing]

Like, if you lift
your pant leg up right now,

what am I gonna see?

[Marty] The quality of that.
Look at that, doubled-up.

Old school well drillers
have done this hack.

Does that mean
all old school well drillers

were wearing pantyhose?

We never tell.

Has Clint
ever seen this hack?

Perhaps.

[Marty laughing]

[Matt] Dad was doing
a chainsaw carving
and he goes,

"Ah, I got to run in
my pantyhose."

[Misty] What you do,
Dad, a little homestead hack

if you get a run in
in your pantyhose?

You just do like a little bit
of a nail polish

on the top of the run,
and it stops it from running.

-Really?
-[Misty] Yeah.

-What kind of nail polish?
-Any kind. Any color.

Any kind of
nail polish for the next
run in my...

...pantyhose.
Okay good.

[Misty] Dad, what are you
gonna wear

now that you don't have
your pantyhose on?

I'll go get you some socks.

Or do you prefer panty hose?

[Marty] Don't worry about me.

There's another homesteader
out there somewhere

that needs his well screened.

[narrator] This isn't
the only time

Alaska challenged
the Raneys ingenuity.

And while rescuing
the Harpe family homestead

on the Kenai peninsula

-the Raneys get up close
and personal
-[bear roaring]

with Alaska's
most formidable foe.

Look at that thing.

Remember that Harpe family
homestead in Alaska?

It was in that
mountain valley.

There was lots of salmon
and trout

which brings in
a large population of bears.

I think we're gonna really
have our work cut out for us.

[narrator] While the Raneys
helped the Harpe family

fortify their homestead
from encroaching predators.

[Marty] Look how big
this area is, my gosh!

[Matt] It's a BFZ,
Bear Free Zone.
It's incredible.

[narrator] The property's
lifeline beehives are ravaged
by the local bear population.

[bees buzzing]

[narrator] And in this
lost project...

Matt helps aspiring
homesteader, Ted,

convert an unused playhouse
into an apiary

imparting the importance
of bee keeping as a resource.

[Matt] All right.

What we can do
with this apiary

is slow the bear down
as much as possible

by having a nice
strong structure,

where all the hives
exist inside of.

An electric fence
that is stretched around
that apiary

like, seven times.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven strand

electric fence.

I really do believe that
it's gonna protect the bees

from a bear encounter.

[narrator] The practice
of housing beehives
in an apiary

is used across the globe
and predates ancient Egypt.

By mimicking
the natural cavities

where bees build hives
in the wild,

apiaries offer protection
from predators

and adverse
weather conditions.

For commercial beekeepers
and hobbyists alike,

apiaries are an
indispensable tool

for maintaining
healthy bee populations.

I had bears
and bees on my mind

for the homestead

and I really wanted
to do something

to keep these bears at bay.

[Matt] What do you think?

[Ted] Yeah, like a week ago,

I didn't even know
what an apiary was.

There's bees in there.

You got some live ones?

So, come over here.

These tubes are pointing in

to these two hives
and there's bees

-in both of these hives.
-Sweet.

With honey and insulation
and all the things

that these bees need
to survive.

One last thing...

[whirring]

[laughing]

That's terrifying.

That was genius!

Listen, that scared me.

If a bear nosing
around there

and gets near that
and that bear pops out
of there,

that bear is gonna have
a mental breakdown.

And he's never coming back.

What is better for
bear defense

than using an actual bear?

-That thing is terrifying.
-Yeah.

[Matt] Oh, my God.

[Marty] It's time...

to tee off.

[narrator] Sometimes,
the Raneys take
homestead hacks

to a whole new level.

Like when Marty attempts
to string a guide wire

across Alaska's
Matanuska river

to reconnect homesteader
Garret Wolf to his property.

Follow me, come on.

I'm gonna tie
a 100 pound test fishing line

to the golf ball.

We'll tie that fishing line
to the main rope,

get it across, and we'll tie
the main rope to the cable,

get it across, hook it up
and we're golden.

[instrumental music playing]

[man] So close.

That was a warm up.

Ready?

You ever played golf before?

Little bit.

[crew clapping]

[Marty] That was good.

It broke the line.

It's too much shock, yeah.

[instrumental music playing]

[Marty] "No man is an island",
no family.

Namely the Raneys are saying,
"Look what we did!"

Because we know
that a long list of people

supported us in the clinch.

[narrator] While Marty,
Misty and Matt

have helped hundreds of people
realize successful homesteads
across the continent...

[all cheering]

[man] Yeah, that's awesome.

[narrator] ...the friends
and family viewers
don't always get to see,

are sometimes the glue
keeping Raney rescues
on track.

[Melanee] I would be stocked
to check out your tank

-and see what it looks like.
-All right. Let's do it.

[Misty] I like when
family shows up.

Because you trust them.

And you know
what they're capable of.

[Melanee] I can't imagine
that that's clean.

So you know
you're set and everything's
gonna be okay.

Oh, no!
Where's my ladder? [laughs]

[narrator] 2,400 miles
from mainland United States,

Hawaii's tropical climate
leaves inhabitants

like the Anh family vulnerable
to high tides and hurricanes.

So the Raneys turn
to a local Hawaiian for help.

[Misty] So I'm sorry

it's absolutely 100% true

nobody's helped us more

when we're in a pinch
than Maciah.

[Marty] He's always got
a smile on his face.

Very talented,
very hard worker.

[narrator] And in this
lost scene...

Maciah provides
his construction knowhow

by helping suspend
a garden trough...

[Misty] Babe, watch the tree.

[narrator] ...above
a potential floodplain.

We built a flying food canoe
with a sprout rigger.

-Not an outrigger?
-[Misty] No.

Ah.

What happened?

Oh, dang!

It severed the plastic.

[Misty] Then of course,
a plastic coated cable,

with hardware U bolts on it,

it has potential
for it to sever,

and the whole thing's
gonna slip.

Okay? And it happened.

[Michail] So these things
aren't gripping on--

they're not gripping on,
they need to go metal
to metal.

-You know what I mean?
-It runs up and down like--

Sh...

Okay, I'm gonna get the ladder
and we're gonna restring it.

It's like a whole thing.

Whoo-hoo!

[Misty] You don't see
blueprints for flying food
canoe with a sprout rigger.

But, the weirder it gets,
Miciah is just all in.

He's like, "Okay, yeah
that makes sense."

-[Miciah] You wanna lift up.
-[Misty] Okay, here we go.

[Miciah] Oh. Come up easy

'cause your
bucket is tilting, yeah?

[Misty] Dude,
this beam might break.

So Maciah grew up
in construction.

And he's kind of like the guy
that knows how to do it all.

He can problem solve
on the fly.

Now you gotta be over there
doing it.

[Miciah] Look, I can only
do one.

[Misty] If you break it
we're not friends anymore.

[Miciah] More?

Yeah, go some more.

[Miciah] Lift more.

[Misty] Mama pajama.

You can give that a try,
what do you think?

So, to suspend something
like that into the air

and have Maciah
by your right hand man,

you couldn't ask
for a better guy.

Oh, my gosh, Maciah.
Good job!

[narrator] Three hundred
miles away

across the undeveloped jungle,

covering approximately
97% of Hawaii's Big island,

homesteader Annie Ridgely
fights to keep her
off-grid dreams alive

while providing
for her four children.

[Misty] How's it going?

[narrator] But what
wasn't seen

is a surprise visit
from a memorable member
of the Raney clan

who thought Marty
everything he knows.

One of our
most memorable visits

to any homestead is when
grandma came.

Hoist up some screws,
please.

Thank you.

-[horn honking]
-[Marty] Oh, Lord.

Hello!

My mom,

50 years in Alaska
just moved to

-your island.
-Hi.

Nice to meet you.

[Marty] This is the
first time ever

my mother came to a homestead.

She's the hardest working,
smartest person in our family.

What people don't know,

she was a trained
concert pianist.

And she was my student.

What kind of a student
was she?

My daughter-in-law
was fantastic!

[both laughing]

Granda is the funniest
Raney hands down.

Why?

Can we call grandma

and see if she has
like a daily joke?

[Pamela over phone]

Hey, you probably
don't remember me.

[Pamela laughing]

We're calling you
because we need a good joke.

[Pamela over phone]

-Wow! Yeah!
-Wow.

You made that up?

The one thing
he was really right about
was the cheesy jokes.

If only my mother
had a sense of humor.

[man] Well, your mom does
have a sense of humor.

She had you.

[all laughing]

[Marty] So everyone's
against me.

[Pamela over phone]

-[Misty] Love you.
-[Marty] That was fun.

She writes her own jokes.

Yeah, she writes
her own jokes.

I probably learned more
from my mom than my dad.

The cool thing about my mom
is she is... always like this.

-She's always friendly,
she's always nice.
-[man] Wow.

Everybody that's
in our inner circle

is nicer than us,
smarter than us.

And when we're singing
the praises of this team

it reminds me of
how we're quite blessed.

[Marty] Well, I have to
get back to work sadly.

-Oh.
-You're welcome to hang out.

Okay, I'll let you know.

In fact, the homesteaders
are quite blessed

to have this
barrage of talent.

-[man] It's nice to have
met you both.
-All right.

Okay, nice to meet you.

It does in fact take a little
help from our friends.

[instrumental music playing]

[Marty] All right.
So, how was it?

Driving down memory lane,
was it cool?

[Matt] I don't wanna get out
of the car, man.

I can stay here forever.

[Marty] It might be
a cliche but,

it's the little things

that really keep you going.

It's the little things
that matter.

[instrumental music playing]

Okay.
Come on over here, family.
What's that say?

-[woman] See ya
later alligator.
-Exactly.

[woman] Love it.

[Marty] It was nice to take
a little bit of a break.

But now it's time to
head to a homestead.

Let's go.