attaching to pedistals

[Porter]

I am building a pedistal for my first deer to sit on.  What is the best way to attach the deer the the base? 

I am thinking about running all thread from the base up about 4 inches and drill out a hole in the manikan to slip the rods into .

[Vince Spellane]

You will probably need more support than just the all thread in the foam, with any type of force the small surface area of the all thread may crush the foam and make it loose.  I normally use all thread, place a nut on top of the base (recessed to hide)(so you don't pull the all thread out when you tighten) drill hole up through foam like you said place all thread in hole then cut out a large section of foam where the all thread passes (near the end of it or middle) and place a wooden block and fasten to the all thread, then re-foam the large hole over and now you have a more solid mount. 

[Bills_and_Quills]

I had a customer that wanted to be able to remove the mount easily(dunno why??) so I drilled a hole in to the form and inserted a length of PVC just a bit larger in diameter than the rod I used. I ran the rod through my base with nuts on the top and bottom side(recessed on top) and allowed about 7-8" for sticking into the pipe. While mounting I covered the opening to the pipe with the hide just like a normal mount, allowed it to dry and then made and an "x" incision into the hide over the pipe opening. This left me with four triangle shaped "flaps" of hide that i simply apoxied up into the piece of pipe. And just like that the mount can be taken on and off. And this did make delivery a little easier.

[Matt]

I make all my pedistal mounts removablefrom the pedistal, it makes for easy handling an transport, especially on elk and larger game. I use square stock and either set the female piece in the pedistal or the solid stock, it depends on the size of the animal.

[roostinridge]

All our pedestals have removable tops like Matt said, much eaiser to work with.

[slater56]

any tutorials on this?

[charlie]

Here is how I just did the bracket on a pedestal mount elk  Im putting together. If anyone wants to add anything to it go for it. Or any ideas to do it better the next time. I did this on a moose aslo and worked great.

First I bulit my armeture that will hold the mounting bracket to the base, eventually it will be a series of rocks.


Next I welded some tabs on my square stock so I can screw a few peices of wood to it for the foam to grab ahold of. I also welded up the base for the upright that the form will slide down onto but dont weld up the upright at this point, you have to make sure that the form is still plum and this is where you can make adjustments.



Next was marking where the bracket is going to go into the form.



Now the fun stuff, Let er eat!!!! I used a 1 1/2 inch spade bit to do this part.





The test fit to make sure the angle is correct. If you notice in one of the pictures on the form I made marks on the side and back that I lined up the bracket with, it was easy to do by inserting the upright so you could see the angle of the bracket .



Once it was at the correct angles I screwed it in place with some 8 inch screws and foamed it into place, dont forget to put a block of wood on there so you can fasten it to a mounting stand. The block can be cut off after it is mounted.



This is where you hold the form up to the base and let the upright slide down to see if it is straight or if you need to make adjustments before you weld it to the metal base, sorry, couldnt take pics of that. Hope I explained it so you could understand.

Anyway this is the form slid onto the upright after it was final welded into place. Completely removeble.







Matbee that will give you some ideas on how your like to attach a pedestal mount. Takes about an Hour- hour and a half to do this from cutting the medal to having the form on the base.