Grog

Hello, Does anyone have or has had one of these. It has a motor drive so you can track the night sky. So in order to do this you need to polar align(facing north). The problem is once you're all set up it can be hard to turn the telescope around and point it at objects. The knobs used to tighten and the motor drive get in the way. I've ditched the slow motion cables too as they also get in the way. Since it doesn't seem to be able to freely move around, seems kinda pointless to have this motor drive feature. My garden is south facing therefore I'm likely to be searching for celestial objects in this direction. Any advice? Thank you.