I read this in Ed Robinsons book Falling For It: The Apprenticeship.
Cut 3 notches in a flat topped tree stump now stand a match in each one.
(You know what’s coming next don’t you). Yep that’s right, with one swing of your axe for each match, split every match one after the other.
A felling axe was used in the book.
I couldn’t even hit one.