I have an older version of that lathe, came out a an Army mobile machine shop. The motor was mounted on top for space saving, mine still has motor mount plate on backside. Installed in the trailer it sat on an 11" wide, angle iron pedestal bolted to floor, the operator stood in a 6" deep well in floor. As for top heaviness, I plucked mine out of trailer still on 11" wide pedestal with the JD loader/forklift and carried it several hundred yards across the field, without dumping it. I have since raised and widened the pedestal, and made it so it cannot dump while being forked. Its a nice machine, came with almost every piece of tooling that it left the factory with, plus a versa-mill with every attachment available.