{"id":16,"date":"2026-10-17T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-10-17T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T21:37:37","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fotf\"><section class=\"fotf-section \"><div class=\"fotf-wrap\"><p class=\"fotf-eyebrow\">The person behind the product<\/p><h1>Meet Joe Lund.<\/h1><p class=\"fotf-lead\">Inventor. Machinist. Always figuring out a better way.<\/p><\/div><\/section><section class=\"fotf-section fotf-light\"><div class=\"fotf-wrap\"><div class=\"fotf-grid\"><figure class=\"fotf-picture \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"fotf-image\" src=\"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Joe-Lund-inventor-of-Fire-on-the-Fly.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Lund holding two trophies\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1710\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><figcaption>Joe Lund, inventor of Fire on the Fly.<\/figcaption><\/figure><div><h2>A lifetime of<br>figuring things out.<\/h2><p>Joe Lund is the kind of person who sees a problem and starts working on a solution. An entrepreneur and inventor with a background in machining, he understands how things work\u2014and how to build them better.<\/p><p>That curiosity follows him into the garage, where he loves rebuilding vehicles, especially Toyotas and old Land Cruisers. Whether he\u2019s bringing an old rig back to life or working through a new product idea, Joe has a knack for figuring things out.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"fotf-section \"><div class=\"fotf-wrap\"><div class=\"fotf-grid\"><div><p class=\"fotf-eyebrow\">From the garage to the outdoors<\/p><h2>Good ideas<br>get built.<\/h2><\/div><div><p>His inventions include the Seat Jackers sold through <a href=\"https:\/\/desertdoesit.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Desert Does It<\/a>, and he is a co-inventor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushpilot.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PushPilot<\/a>. Fire on the Fly brings that same practical thinking outdoors: a stainless-steel fire pit, grill, and seat that packs into one bucket.<\/p><p>Joe lives in Hurricane, Utah, with his wife, Melissa. There\u2019s usually a vehicle to work on, a problem to solve, or another idea taking shape.<\/p><a class=\"fotf-button\" href=\"\/?page_id=25\">Explore the kit<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person behind the product Meet Joe Lund. Inventor. Machinist. Always figuring out a better way. Joe Lund, inventor of Fire on the Fly. A lifetime offiguring things out. Joe Lund is the kind of person who sees a problem and starts working on a solution. An entrepreneur and inventor with a background in machining, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireonthefly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}