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.

Hi Kyle,

Welcome to Permies.

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.