A wood splitting grappler is provided which may grab debris, split debris and move the debris to a desired location such as a materials reducing machine for further processing or disposition. Compact PCI cards or ATCA cards at the headend interface with a plurality of PTMC standard-based mezzanine card modems to allocate the headend bandwidth between headend and CPE radio transceivers. The hole in the washer is eccentric to the projection of the washer. In another aspect, a power-consuming precharge period is minimized by preemptively starting the sensing in a multi-pass sensing operation. 1% to about 30% by weight of a suspending agent.