Troy-Bilt Tomahawk Wood Chipper/Shredder model 47285 -- anybody have an operating manual?

I did and reversed it pretty quick. The clutch was getting super hot. I came to realize you want it to be able to pop out on overload, not slip. If you have a clutch and it jams, the motor rpm will drop to the clutch engagement rpm and proceed to happily eat your clutch, no matter it's rating.

If a one way clutch existed, so that the clutch basically just handles engagement and not overload, it'd be awesome.

Thanks.  Any recommendations for best belt to use?

Nathan Stewart wrote:Aaagggh. Does anyone have an unexploded photograph view of the belt tension lever assembly? The diagrams are a bit too exploded, hard to see which bolts And spacers go where in the levers.

New to this forum but had a model 47276 that I gave away cause I got tired of it. It was just a little too heavy (I'm 81 yrs old) and didn't need something that big after cutting down all my trees and making fire wood and mulch out of them. I do have PDF files of the original manual and brochure and part catalog if anyone ones them.

M Fredrickson, do you have the pin and spacer ID/OD dimensions and do you know what material each was made of?

Wow! I just picked one of these up for 60$!! From Facebook. I’m so in love. It’s an absolute animal. I can definitely tell the blades need to be replaced or flipped. Engine started right up with a carb replacement. I put a new belt on and it was chipping. It’s amazing. I’m going to read through all the comments here so I can get filled in on this machine.

How do I remove the flail blades? I

Joshua Bertram wrote:Okay, so I dug a little deeper into the machine today.  I pretty much knew the main blade needed to be sharpened.  For one, it was hard to push a 1" freshly cut branch through it.  The other thing that had me a little worried was that the chipper seemed more like a shredder.  I'm sure nesting birds would really appreciate the pasta like long fibers of wood, but from what I've seen, actual chips seem to be what comes out of other machines.

So I figured I'd sharpen the main blade today, and then it would be fine.  No.  The main blade is a wreck.  It's been rounded to the point where I'm just going to toss it in the garbage.  I took some pictures of it on a flat surface, and the middle has about an 1/8" depression in it, and is very badly rounded.  The 8hp engine has probably been worked a lot harder than it should have been for quite a while.  I found a blade on Amazon that I hope will fit it.  It's another $40 bucks into the nickel and dime game, but hopefully the blade works and that's the last purchase I'll have to make for a while.  Here's the blade I just ordered.  It's supposed to get here before the end of the month.  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V7NRZ48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1  The dimensions seem to be exactly the same as my existing blade.

Then I figured I'd inspect the flails.  In all honesty I didn't know what a flail was until today.  Yeah, those were all rounded off too, but thankfully the other three cutting edges were still good on them.  
Oh my gosh, what a pain in the ass to flip them around.  I had to contort my arms in all kinds of strange ways to get the bits back together right.  I took pictures of each of the "axles" or whatever as I went.  I could see getting really confused about how they would go back together if one didn't do that.  

Finally got around to posting my video replacing the flails and cutter on my Tomahawk: https://youtu.be/_8vTFM4Jcig

Thanks for all the help above! Mine doesn't have the pull start anymore on it and we fire it up with a ½" drill with a socket. Much easier. You'll want spare belts as backup and to not overload it with wet material or too much as it will burn through belts quickly.

Excellent Resource to Start with: https://permies.com/t/51002/Troy-Bilt-Tomahawk-Wood-Chipper

Parts Manual: https://partsandservice.com/html/TroyBilt/cs/cs47285-472850100101.html

Chipper Parts: https://www.chalmersindustries.com/ChipperParts-s/143.htm

Carburetor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082V26TSN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=pfa12-20

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It's an 8hp Garden Way Troy-Bilt Tomahawk chipper/shredder from about 20 years ago, 1997 list price $1,249 dollars.  I bought it off a nice old man of about 80 who was holding a "living estate sale".  His claim is that it was only ever used one time.  I paid: $145.  Condition appears very good, no visible wear on any parts, 8hp Briggs and Stratten 4-cycle motor has oil and turns easily by hand without vibration.  Haven't been able to fuel it or start it up yet because of weather and prior commitments today that have kept me from playing with it.  I think I got a great deal even if I have to tinker with the motor; if it starts, runs, and chips, I got a spectacular deal.

But I'm not posting here to gloat about a fine day out bargain hunting.  I want to beg for a copy of the operating manual for the model #47285 if anybody has one.  I've checked all the usual internet suspects and nobody has the manual for this model, although there's a manual for a very similar earlier model here that tells me much of what I want to know. But still, if anybody has a manual in electronic format, I'd love to get a copy.  And if you've got a paper manual, I'd be happy to pay postage both ways so I can scan it and put a copy up on the web.

I have lots of wood chips from off the property (thank you Davey Tree!) but I'm also clearing a ton of brush and saplings and I already have plenty of brush piles.  So my specific application is to turn brush from my food forest area into mulch that will be left in place to suppress weeds and grasses, improve soil, and hold moisture.

Nonetheless I am aware that the downsides (from a permaculture perspective) of running a gasoline wood chipper are not inconsiderable.  They include:

1 - noise and pollution from burning fossil fuels
2 - consumer-grade chippers tend to be slow and labor intensive
3 - there may be better uses for the whole wood (brush piles, hugels, mushrooms)

However I don't have the machinery I would need to bury hugel-wood in the amounts I'm generating, it's a lot of work moving brush from where I'm cutting it to where I have room for brush piles, and it's a lot more efficient to generate mulch where I need it (in the areas I'm clearing) than it is to haul it by hand across the property.  My bottom line is that the machine was a bargain and I believe it will help me get where I want to go faster than I could get there without the machine.

But I could sure use a manual.  Post here or PM me if you can help out with that.  Thanks!

An online search gave me this Troybilt chipper/shredder