Log Cabin Fever

The crew builds a rustic new home for a young married couple at the top of a mountain, but they discover that getting their equipment up the treacherous roads is as difficult as building the cabin itself.

The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy needs a shelter constructed for weary hikers and campers trekking the Appalachian Trail; Charlie and his crew erect a pavilion, then they visit the weathered cabin of a long-ago hiker.

Charlie Norman comes from three generations of professional masons, so when a client wants an antique wine cellar constructed, the Normans go digging for Revolutionary War-era bricks and explore their lineage along the way.

In Banner Elk, N.C., Charlie and the crew must retrofit a modern home with a rustic timber-frame interior, and it's going to take some finessing to get the 1500-pound beams into place; two new faces join the team to help tear down a barn.

Charlie heads to Lake Norman, N.C., to renovate an antique log cabin turned vacation home; it's a gorgeous old lakeside cabin, but it has quite a few problems; the foundations, floors, ceiling, paneling, and logs are all in need of a little TLC.

Charlie discovers a mother lode of historic beams inside a dilapidated barn in Pennsylvania while tearing it down.

In Johnson City, Tenn., Bobby and Laurena hire Charlie to move one of their historic structures; set into a hillside and surrounded by gardens, the team must resort to old-fashioned handiwork in order to haul the heavy hand-hewn beams out.

The crew takes on its biggest job ever when they attempt to tear down a massive barn owned by an Army veteran and his family, who love the old barn but realize that its glory days have long since passed.

Charlie revisits a massive log cabin vacation home to replace rotting timber; Charlie and his wife, Beth, visit a wedding reception cabin retreat; the crew creates a cabin-like television screening room for Charlie's old college buddy and his wife.

Mike and his sister, Anita, want an antique log cabin built far from civilization, but the crew discovers that getting this job done means bringing in power where there is none and fighting massive lightning and hail storms.

Charlie and the crew travel deep into the backwoods of Tennessee mountain country to tear down an American Revolution-era log cabin.

Charlie and the crew convert two century-old tobacco barns into a craftsman's quarters; the task requires tearing down one sagging structure and using its pieces to patch and renovate the other; they face rotting floorboards and heaps of scrap metal.

In Sandy Mush, N.C., Charlie and his crew disassemble a 100-year-old cabin on a compound time forgot, but trouble seems to follow them at every turn; a crew member goofs off leading to a trip to the hospital.

In Jonesborough, Tenn., Susan calls on Charlie and his team to dismantle an old barn on her property where she wants to build her dream house; Charlie consults with town officials about a historic cabin in need of repair.

Expert craftsman Jack gives Charlie a lesson in hewing logs the old-fashioned way with simple hand tools and lots of elbow grease; the team gears up to finish a lengthy home remodel in Mendota, Va., by trimming the kitchen with worn wooden beams.

Charlie receives a call from a man offering a barn full of disassembled barn wood; Charlie assists his friend, Sarah, whose cabin has acquired a bad case of rot; Charlie and his wife, Beth, build a mantle piece for his eighth grade teacher.

In Church Hill, Tenn., Vaux has a 100-year-old barn that is rotting from the ground up; unwilling to tear it down, he brings in the log cabin crew; Charlie, who must raise the barn and install a fresh foundation to keep it sealed from the elements.