Hi David and welcome.
The item you call 'Tripod' is commonly known as a mount.
I am an avid EQ6 mount user.
As much as I really like my EQ mount, and use it all the time, it is not a great tool for visual work with a Reflector unless you are a 9 foot tall contortionist!
The problem of doing visual work with a Reflector on an EQ mount is that the eyepiece will often end up where you can't reach it even on a stepladder!
It may be pointing directly straight up or down. Sideways isn't too bad.
EQ mounted Reflectors come into their own with Astrophotography because they track with the sky and the camera is in the Focuser and it doesn't care if its upside-down.
Some people do visual with Reflectors on EQ mounts, but some also have the ability to rotate the telescope in its mountings rings which allows you too have the eyepiece wherever you want.
To do visual with an EQ mount you really need to use a Refractor or a Catadioptric (SCT, Maksutov, etc) style scope.
But if you really want a refelector, a Dobsonian mounted Telescope is sooooo much easier to use.
