Pedestal identification help

[bifleming]

Hello, picked this up today. Can anyone help me identify what it is and what it mounts on? Picture attached, it is about 2 1/2 feet high. Not sure I need it, so will probably sell it once I know what it is.

 

[KsM715]

2008 and this is your first post?

Does it have any numbers stamped on it? Steel or aluminium?

 

[wreckerman893]

I have seen them mounted in the bed of pickup trucks and topless CUCV's with an M-60 mounted on them. They were used to dress up OPFOR (Opposing Force) vehicles.

Prob too light for a "Ma Deuce".

 

[bifleming]

It's steel. Pretty sturdy, but I would guess not for a ma deuce too. No numbers on it I can see.

 

[Ripcord01]

Would make a great Flag pole holder .

 

[Recovry4x4]

Bubble balancer.

 

[papabear]

Not like any weapons pedestal I remember seeing.

Of course that don't mean much

 

[historyfanatics]

That's a new one for me. It looks kind of like the mounts in some of the FAV's, but that would be a guess.

I'll go for the OPFOR mount. It would support a PKM or M60. Nothing bigger.

 

[Recovry4x4]

I have seen them mounted in the bed of pickup trucks and topless CUCV's with an M-60 mounted on them. They were used to dress up OPFOR (Opposing Force) vehicles.

Prob too light for a "Ma Deuce".

It's 2 1/2 ft tall. Have to be a short gunner!

 

[73m819]

It's 2 1/2 ft tall. Have to be a short gunner!

MR. KIP maybe

 

[wreckerman893]

Those mounts were meant to attach to the bed of a small truck and spread the vibration around when the weapon was fired.

There was another piece that fit down into the hole that increased the height of the mount. The cradle for the weapon was mounted to that piece.

Many of those type mounts were made by individual units using patterns they created or copied from other units.

There was a "Skunk Works" shop at Fort Benning back in the 80's that made a lot of oddball stuff for the Rangers and other spook units.

They would take the M151 jeeps and make gun jeeps out of them.

I visited that shop a lot but taking pics was forbidden.