Setting up your chipper shredder, Warning – Troy-Bilt 424 User Manual

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Setting Up

Your Chipper

Shredder

IMPORTANT: This unit is shipped without gasoline or oil
in the engine. Be certain to service engine with gasoline
and oil as instructed in the separate engine manual
before operating your machine.

Loose Parts In Carton

a. Debris Collection Bag
b. Tow Bar
c. Safety Glasses
d. Engine Oil

Lowering The Chipper Chute

(Model 24A-424G766 Only)

1. For shipping reasons, the unit is crated with its chipper

chute in a raised position. To pivot it downward,
proceed as follows:
a. Pull the spring latch upward.
b. Gently pivot the chipper chute down until it clicks

into the lock rod. See Figure 1.

WARNING: Never operate the chipper
shredder with the chipper chute in the
raised position. Doing so may result in
property damage or serious injury to
the operator or bystanders.

Attaching The Debris

Collection Bag

2. To attach the bag:

a. Place the opening of the bag completely over the

chute deflector.

b. Position the bag so that the wing knobs which

secure the chute deflector to the impeller housing
are completely covered.

c. Pull on the drawstrap until the bag is tight around

chute deflector opening. See Figure 2.

Attaching The Tow Bar

3. To attach the tow bar:

a. Remove the spring pin and clevis pin from the end

of the tongue. See Figure 3.

b. Insert the tongue into the base.
c. Reinsert the clevis pin through aligning holes in

both the tongue and the base. Fasten with the
spring pin to secure. See Figure 3.

Figure 3

Figure 2

NOTE: All references in
this manual to the left
or right side of the chip-
per shredder is from
the operating position
only. Exceptions, if any,
will be specified.

Figure 1

IMPORTANT

This unit is shipped

without gasoline or

oil in the engine. Be

certain to service

engine with gasoline

and oil as instructed

in the separate engine

manual before operat-

ing your machine.

WARNING

Never operate the

chipper shredder with

the chipper chute in the

raised position. Doing

so may result in prop-

erty damage or serious

injury to the operator

or bystanders.

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