What is a Stainless Steel Table Used For?

There are many uses for stainless steel tables. Doctors use them to conduct surgeries, train surgeons, cut open cadavers for research, and sometimes display them in an operating room or hospital hallway.

Pathologists use them to slice through human tissue like butter, while chemists layout solutions on their tops to study the properties of different liquids.

Below are more uses of stainless steel table

1. They are used in laboratories to test the sturdiness of materials

It is an excellent application for stainless steel tables. They are used in laboratories to test various materials’ strength and compare the relative sturdiness of different products.

2. It can also be used at home

Some people use stainless steel surfaces in their homes, such as coffee table tops or bar tops, that need no maintenance because it is effortless to clean.

3. Stainless steel tables are also frequently used in hospitals

Hospitals use stainless steel tables for many purposes, such as examining or operating patients, displaying cadavers or specimens, preparing medications, and other things that need no maintenance. And because they are so easy to clean and strong because of the stainless steel table legs.

4. They are also perfect for outdoor use

Stainless steel tables are commonly used outdoors because of the following reasons:

  • It is lighter than aluminum;
  • Plastic or rubber feet can make them less prone to slipping
  • They don’t rust like iron or steel and can withstand corrosion
  • They are often weatherproof and water-resistant

5. Some use stainless steel for display

Some people who want to decorate their homes will choose stainless steel tables as they think it is more decorative than wood, metal, or stone. They add a modern touch to any home and can increase the value of a home.

6. Stainless steel tables are used in restaurants for serving food

Stainless steel surfaces absorb heat and can be used to hold hot or cold foods such as metallic spoons, trays, and so on. Unlike wooden tables, they also do not retain odors or flavors, making them very easy to maintain and clean.

7. Stainless steel tables are also used in schools

Schools with stainless steel tables usually use them for practical reasons, such as laboratory experiments or demonstrations, whose surfaces must be easily cleaned and free of rusting and odors.

8. They can be decorated with stain-resistant coatings

Most stainless steel surfaces are not sturdy enough for general use, but they can be covered with a special coating to protect your furniture from common stains or food.

9. Stainless steel is also used for countertops in kitchens

It’s naturally resistant to corrosion and stains, making it an excellent choice for modern kitchen counters. It resists heat well, making it a good choice for places like stoves and ovens.

Conclusion

Stainless steel tables provide an inexpensive option for everyday use in all types of institutions, homes, and restaurants. They are easy to clean and maintain with self-lubricating properties ideal for chemical reactions or kitchen applications. 

Stainless steel tables are versatile and can be used in almost all homes, schools, laboratories, restaurants, and hospitals. They can withstand heat and water, making them highly durable…

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How to Survive a Famine

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How to Survive a Famine

Famine is one of mankind’s oldest enemies, having existed throughout human history. Regardless of whether the famine was caused by drought or pestilence, the result is usually the same: people suffer and many die… sometimes entire civilizations. 

Modern farming techniques have greatly reduced the risk of famine for the countries which can afford the necessary infrastructure to support those farms. But even with the massive infrastructure we have in place, we are still susceptible to drought. Just look at what happened in Southern California a few years ago, when the government decided to give the water in the reservoirs to the Delta Smelt instead of saving it for the farms. Those farms dried up and shut down. 

While that affected the cost of food, it was merely seen as a blip in overall food prices. But what if the same thing happened over a larger area? We are currently seeing drought across the United States which has caused our largest reservoirs to be at record-low levels. This is causing some hydroelectric power dams to cease electric power production. In the coming years, California and the Southwest will be scrambling for water. 

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In addition, the water levels in some of our largest aquifers are dropping as more water is being drawn out of them than can percolate through the ground to refill them. That wouldn’t be a problem if those areas had sufficient surface water to meet agricultural and other needs, but the aquifers are drying up because there isn’t enough surface water. 

Just to make matters worse, we’ve got the supply-chain problems which are causing shortages of just about everything. Not all the food we consume here in the United States is grown here; many things come from overseas, including such widely-diverse products as tea, apple juice, and bananas. 

What this means is that we are headed into a nationwide famine. While it might not reach that point all that quickly, we can expect to see ongoing food shortages. The high prices we’ve been seeing are not going to end and in fact will continue to rise. Inflation is just making that worse, as food usually has higher inflation than other consumer goods. 

So What Happens When Food Becomes Scarce? 

We’ve been seeing food shortages ever since the start of the great toilet paper panic in 2020. Expect those to continue, but not just because of people panic buying. Rather, what we’re going to see is farmers having trouble producing and packagers having trouble getting enough food to package. Augason Farms, one of the biggest producers of “survival” food, has suspended operations for a minimum of 90 days because they can’t get the raw food they need to work with.

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Your Own Wonderland: Everything You Need to Beautify Your Backyard

Maintaining your home’s appearance is a must for the savvy homeowner, whether you’re selling your home or inviting friends and coworkers over, a well-manicured front lawn can convey a solid, positive first impression of both the property and its owner. It’s one of those unspoken rules, a universally understood principle that is part of keeping up a home. However, what is often understated and lesser-known is the impact a meticulously sculpted backyard can have on visitors to your humble abode.

With careful planning, frequent maintenance, and the occasional drastic renovation, visitors to your home may find that when they step outside into your backyard, they’ve walked through a portal to the magical, mystical land of their childhood dreams. 

Your home is your paradise, your domain, your pocket in which everything is under your control, and you can sculpt your surroundings to your liking to represent you and effectively serve your needs.

While most homeowners either write off their backyards as unimportant (as it’s unlikely their local homeowners’ association is going to pop behind their fences like paparazzi, trying to get a picture of the neighborhood scandal) or maintain them on a surface level, the wise homeowner will see their backyard as the well of untapped potential that it is, a lump of modeling clay that they can craft into a masterpiece. All that’s needed is a fundamental understanding of the tools of the trade and how to use them to execute your vision of your dream backyard. 

Fortunately, by following a few essential steps, anyone can remodel their backyard and make it into an eye-pleasing, stress-relieving paradise. Without further ado, here’s a brief guide to DIY landscaping. 

Grow a Vibrant Garden

Learning how to grow and maintain a garden is no easy task, especially for those of us who are beginners or those who are without a green thumb. However, your first step should be to choose a good location to seed it; one that is likely to get plenty of sunlight, one that you can frequently water without expending too much effort, and one that is guaranteed to draw eyes when people visit your backyard.

You should also plan out what kinds of plants you want, paying attention to color scheme, as well as which varieties are likely to grow in different seasons. The worst thing imaginable would be to expend effort watering a crop for months, only to realize your plants are out of season and won’t live long once grown. 

Once your garden is seeded, set up an irregular watering regimen, watering your plants deeply and thoroughly once a week. While the conventional wisdom suggests watering your plants shallowly daily, the problem with that is that your plants will become dependent on daily waterings, their roots not having the proper incentive to grow deep and strong. Irregular watering, on the other hand, makes your plants as hardy as they are beautiful. 

Ornamentation and Construction of Structures

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These Small Victories for Individual Rights Light the Way Back to Freedom

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by Joanna Miller

Most of us have had a hell of a past two years. Between inflation, job uncertainty, riots (depending on where you live), and the stress and mental health issues that come along with all those things, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. But right now, I think it’s time to look at some small, underreported victories for individual rights.

Let me say first that this article is not about vaccination itself. I can see no problems with informed, consenting adults trying out new medical treatments. My big issues are the sweeping mandates and the destruction of privacy regarding medical decisions. I had family visit in California recently, and they had to present their vaccination verification to enter any building in LA. In Denver, many venues are starting to require proof of vaccination upon entry. 

What’s next?

Are we going to have to start getting weighed and proving we aren’t obese because obesity correlates with all kinds of other diseases? (The OP posted a satirical article about just this topic recently.) Are we going to have to reveal our sexual histories? When we stop viewing each other as brothers and sisters of Mother Earth and start judging each other primarily on how sick we think another person will make us, we are Othering. And Daisy’s written about where that leads.

I don’t want to speculate too wildly about the CDC’s endgame here. However, I will point out on December 2, 2020, Dr. Fauci said in an interview with Fox News that a 70% fully vaccinated population would lead to herd immunity. A few weeks later, he said herd immunity would require 85 to 90%, then admitted he really has no idea what it would take to achieve herd immunity.

But we’ve gone from “Well, let’s get a lot of people vaccinated” to “Everyone needs a shot. If you protest, you lose your job.” I know that vaccines are wildly profitable for pharmaceutical companies. And I know that pharmaceutical companies donate generously to both political parties. Draw your own conclusions.

Regardless of motive, the push is on.

Regardless of motive, right now, there is an incredible amount of power and money pushing to get every American, of every health condition and religious belief, vaccinated. While many scoffed about the very idea of these kinds of manipulations just a year ago, it’s all happening. The overwhelming majority of working adults are being forced to choose between their careers and their bodily autonomy. Many parents (myself included)…

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The Benefits of Landscape Lighting

Maybe you’ve spent a significant amount of time, money, or perhaps both making the exterior of your home beautiful, and especially your landscaping. If so, you of course want to highlight what you’ve done, so why not add lighting to your landscaping?

Professional landscaping lighting is the best way to warm up the beauty of your home’s exterior and highlight its best features, plus there are plenty of other benefits as well. 

Improve Your Home’s Curb Appeal and Beauty

Adding professional landscape lighting can make a very noticeable difference in your home’s curb and aesthetic appeal. In the evening, landscape lighting creates a warm, inviting and oasis-like property. Your home will stand out, and you’re going to enhance not just your landscaping features but also your architectural features. 

Without landscape lighting, your home becomes lost in the dark. 

When a professional positions your lighting correctly, it can make all of the best features of your home and lawn pop, but you can also subtly take some of the focus off the less desirable features. 

A tree might have downlights to show its shape, while even the small but impactful details of your home can be highlighted with wash lights. Your focal points can be surrounded with bullet and floodlights to showcase texture and color.

If you have décor outside, you can highlight this with well-placed lighting. 

For example, if you have an outdoor living area where you like to entertain, your landscape lighting can initially guide people to your backyard through your pathways. You can then use lighting around your seating areas or your outdoor kitchen. You can create mood lighting, and you can even opt for different colored lights depending on what ambiance you’re trying to create. 

With outdoor lighting, you can visually expand the boundaries of your home and property. The more you light certain areas, the further it can push the edges. If you’re a frequent entertainer or just love the idea of a palatial home, you might consider investing in landscape lighting. 

Increase Your Property’ Value

Outdoor lighting is a relatively low-cost project that can give you an increase in your home value. For example, according to the National Association of Home Builders, 41% of surveyed buyers said outdoor lighting was an essential feature they were looking for in a home.  

Forty-nine percent said it was a desirable feature. 

Security

The more well-lit your home is in all ways, the less appealing it is for criminals. Burglars almost always want to target dark homes because it gives them a way to hide. If you have landscape lighting, it’s an excellent theft deterrent. 

In addition to illuminating possible hiding spots, landscape lighting also draws attention to your home in general, upping the chances a neighbor or someone else would see if someone were trying to break in. 

When you get home at night, you’ll have a better view of your property to ensure no one is lurking around. 

You may even get a discount from your insurance company on your home insurance premiums if your property is well-lit. 

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What is new in dining room tables?

The dining room is that one room where all the family comes together for a meal. It’s a communal room where the furnishing is practical as well as attractive. The centerpiece of every dining room is, of course, the table and its matching chairs. What are the latest trends in dining room table design? That’s what we’re talking about in this article, so let’s get started!

Modern or Contemporary Style?

If you click here, you’ll get a good idea of what an innovative and original furniture manufacturer has to offer. These designs cover all the possible bases and should inspire you to pick a style that you like. The question is this: modern or contemporary? And what do we actually mean by this?

Contemporary furniture could be described as what is ‘in’ right now. Design trends change, and what was contemporary 30 years ago, for example, may not be now. Think of curves and traditional designs, detailing and effects, and also colors.

Modern furniture is not, in fact, modern! It’s a movement that began in the 1920s and was in vogue for a few decades. Modern furniture design follows certain rules. It’s clean and sleek, all straight lines and minimalist in style, and usually black or white, metal, or neutral colors. This brings us to our next section about the material your dining room table might be made from. 

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Traditional Wood or Something Different?

The modern design movement welcomed the use of different materials in household furnishing. A lot of the inspiration comes from industrial design. Hence there is increased use of metal in modern design. This adds to the sleek and stylish appearance and means that designs that are in fact 100 years old still look fresh and futuristic today.

But do you really want a metal dining room table? It would look great in a minimalist loft apartment but perhaps not in a period or vintage home. Wood, on the other hand, can be used for either a contemporary or modern design of the dining room table. It’s versatile and stylish, beautiful and natural and available in a wide range of shades and finishes.

For the traditional or contemporary home, wood may be the way to go, but before we move on, you should at least consider some of the ultra-modern plastics that are popular with apartment owners – but only if you have the right sort of room in which it will look the part.

Check Out Design Trends

If you’re stuck for ideas about the décor and furnishing for your dining room, the best place to start is at any of the many interior design blogs and pages that a search engine will give you. Or you could check out design magazines for inspiration. It remains true that the dining room is possibly the most traditional room in the house when it comes to furniture, but there’s no reason why you cannot emulate a super-modern or bare minimalist look if that’s what you want to do.

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Tips For Installing Winter Tree Guards

Winter is rapidly approaching on my northern Wisconsin farm, which means it’s time to start prepping my young fruit trees for the coldest months of the year. While they’re busy dropping their leaves and heading into winter slumber, I’m busy strengthening their protective perimeter deer fence and—just as importantly—wrapping their delicate trunks with tree guards.

Installing tree guards is an important step to protect the trunks of your trees from winter girdling by hungry critters—rabbits, mice, voles, etc. It’s disappointing to see a beautiful tree you’ve carefully tended emerge from winter with potentially fatal bark damage. To avoid this upsetting possibility, installing tree guards on young fruit trees is a high priority on my annual winter prep checklist.

Tree guards come in a wide variety of styles and materials, and some are more suitable for specific needs than others. But for the purpose of protecting in winter (when the trees are dormant and not adding girth to their trunks), I’ve found that a combination of corrugated plastic guards and versatile cloth wraps serve my needs perfectly.

Read more: Are you ready for winter? This cold-weather checklist will help you prepare!

Corrugated Plastic

Corrugated plastic guards are effective for guarding branchless portions of the lower trunk. They are tough and durable—no critter is going to chew through the plastic, at least not easily!

They’re also fast and simple to install. This is useful if you’re wrapping dozens of trees on the last nice day before a giant snowstorm. Been there, done that.

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Cloth Wraps

Cloth wraps might not present quite as formidable a barrier against hungry critters. But they’re useful for wrapping portions of the trunk from which branches are growing.

The cloth wraps I use come on rolls and measure about 3 inches in width. Io installing them requires wrapping the cloth in overlapping spirals up and around the trunk. This means you can leave small gaps in the wrap coverage to let branches through, allowing you to protect most of the trunk while still accommodating branches.

For young trees with branches very low to the ground, this is a helpful alternative to corrugated plastic guards.

It’s also possible to wrap curving branches with cloth wraps. Ever since one of my young apple trees suffered sunscald on the south sides of its branches one winter, I’ve taken to wrapping the lower portions of its main branches with white cloth.

I do this in order to reflect sunlight and protect the delicate bark. So far, I’ve been happy with the results—no more sunscald!

Read more: Is it too early to start prepping for winter? No—and here’s why.

Security Concerns

But whether you use corrugated plastic or cloth guards on your tree trunks, you’ll need some way to secure them in place. For this purpose, I’ve taken to using black electrical tape. It seems to hold its stickiness well over…

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Dandelion Jelly Recipe – The Homestead Survival

Even if it is November time now, you can already prepare for the upcoming spring and try out this dandelion jelly recipe. Make sure the dandelions you pick are organic and have not been sprayed with weed killer. Time to collect your empty jars already now!

Dandelion jelly tastes a bit like honey according to Simply Canning who shares this recipe. How wonderful to take a lowly weed and make something edible from it. Dandelions bloom in the spring and again in the fall so you could actually make jelly twice a year.

  • ▢200-250 pieces Dandelion Flowers freshly plucked
  • ▢1 quart Water
  • ▢Sugar quantity according to infused water
  • ▢Juice of 1 Lemon

Dandelion Jellyphoto credit simplycanning.com

Making Dandelion Jelly with Powdered Pectin

  • 3 Cups dandelion tea
  • 4 1/2 Cups sugar
  • 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
  • 1 box powdered pectin

Add dandelion tea, lemon juice, 1 box of pectin into a large saucepan. Bring to a boil. Add your sugar and bring back to a boil. Continue boiling 1-2 minutes. Remove from heat and fill jars.

Pour hot jelly into hot canning or jelly jars, leaving 1/4 inch head space. Use pints or 1/2 pints.

Process for

  • 10 minutes if you are below 6000 ft elevation.
  • 15 minutes if you are above 6000 ft elevation.

Why Didn’t My Dandelion Jelly Set?

Dandelion jelly like all jellies can have problems setting if something goes wrong during the cooking process.

It could be that it wasn’t cooked enough or it was overcooked.

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Best beginner shotgun? Check out a 20 gauge single-shot break action

Here is why a simple, single-shot shotgun may be the best choice for a beginner and a valuable addition to your preparedness battery.

by Leon Pantenburg

A break action single shot is one of the safest firearms available, and it is a proven game-getter.

I like single shot firearms. My first shotgun was a bolt action 20 gauge Mossberg I got when I was 15. I like the gun and still hunt with it occasionally some 50+ years later. But the Mossberg is a not a fast shooter when it comes to followup shots. Though it has harvested a pickup load (at least!) of squirrels, rabbits, pheasants, quail and ducks, I never downed game with the second shot. Basically, a bolt action shotgun is a single shot with a convenient place to carry ammo.

My brother Michael Pantenburg has been hunting with me some 40+ years. He has a full battery of sporting firearms, but he still likes hunting with his first gun – a Savage over/under, .22 long rifle/20 gauge. The gun has been used extensively, and has harvested most Midwestern small game. It frequently goes along on backcountry elk scouting trips to harvest grouse. (Here’s why you need a .22 rifle.)

My Mississippi neighbors are avid alligator hunters. Firearms used for dispatching an alligator are restricted to long- barreled, shoulder-fired shotguns with shot size no larger than #6. My neighbor uses a .410 single shot.

Point is: An inexpensive single-shot shotgun can be an effective hunting tool. But it’s not the best choice for a defensive weapon because rapid follow-up shots are more difficult. My vote for the best defensive shotgun goes to the 12 gauge Remington 870 .

But a single shot can be a valuable addition to your survival battery. The smaller, lighter gun could be used by kids and smaller individuals. Because of the low cost, a break action is a good firearm to be stowed in survival caches. (Here are three basic firearms to start your preparedness battery.)

 

The good stuff

Safety: A single shot is either loaded or not. Checking on that requires one quick motion. Most break-actions have an exposed hammer, so it only takes a glance to see if the safety is on.

The single shot is either loaded or not. It’s easy to check that.

Teach good shooting habits: If you can only shoot once, and have a slow reload, you’re more likely to wait for a clear, solid shot before pulling the trigger. Semi-automatic firearms, IMHO, can encourage sloppy shooting. (I love my Ruger 10/22 semi-auto, though!) Hunt with a blackpowder muzzleloader, and you’ll soon learn the value of that precisely-placed first shot.

Lightweight and compact: Sometimes you don’t need or want the extra weight of a repeater. When I go deer scouting/squirrel hunting in the fall in Mississippi swamps, a 20 gauge…

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Establishing a Community Corner, by Mark C. A local coffee shop

Introduction

In this essay, I’m recommending a concept. I hope to see some feedback in the blog’s Snippets column, in the next couple of weeks. In a nutshell, I’m suggesting establishing small town Community Cornera — Community-Minded Meeting Places and Event Centers.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer and seek legal advice for all businesses before pursuing anything spelled out below.

As a Redoubter, I am relocating to a small town with little more than a few restaurants, a gas station, and a coffee shop.  I noticed a small prime location corner suite available for lease. My mind has gone into over drive with the current events surrounding our currency and economy and restriction of movements, products and services via mandates.  “How can I find who is selling items like eggs, honey, bread, beef and maybe there is a need for an item that I can make and trade to add to the community?  Furthermore, how do people in the community know about each other’s goods and services?”  I am willing to foot the bill for several years to develop this idea.

#1 – How do I become part of the town economy and culture without becoming seen as an outsider?  For example if I opened some new age yoga studio California-style in this small mountain town, I likely will be branded a “transplant”. Or if I open a competing business, not filling a need in the economy, but putting “Farmer Bob’s Shop” out of business. I could be exiled.  Instead I want to be an extension of Farmer Bob’s Shop.

#2 – How to encourage participation? Mass mailers? Speeches on the importance of small community economies during hard economic times by experts?  This could demonstrate how the space can be used and its intended purpose.  I want to advertise and show examples of how the space can be used, not my strong point.

#3 – Reaching in and reaching out. Looking for local vendors, services, goods and if none exist then maybe reaching out to the surrounding towns and encourage people that do this sort of businesses to come and use the space.  If this stimulates locals bring it back home to locals.

#4 – And foremost is walking the thin line of legality. i.e.  If I serve food then I run up against the bureaucracy of restaurant regulation, licensing, and liability.  But some places have “Log Cabin Laws” and wrapped foods not produced in a kitchen on site could possibly be sold.

The Rabbit Hole

This is the rabbit hole my mind has been in. I would really like to hear ideas.  In a down economy — I’m talking Great Depression — it is my humble opinion that the only way to get through it is to depend on our own local economies, skills, goods, services, etc.  Whether we use the $USD or precious metals or other goods and services to trade as a medium of exchange, we need community!  And a common space to conduct…

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