For the compact tractor owner

The B2601 keeps ten acres going: the front loader for the gravel pile, the mid-mount mower deck for the yard, the rear PTO for the rotary cutter in the back field and the box blade in the fall. Every job reads off the hour meter on the dash. One due board carries the whole tractor: engine oil and filter every 50 engine hours or every 12 months, whichever comes first, grease every 10 hours, hydraulic fluid and its filter every 200, the air filter checked every 100, and the deck and the shaft on their calendar line. One sentence to Muse in ChatGPT is how a row gets written: last oil on the Kubota at 437 hours on August 1.

Grease is the job you log most often: the grease fittings on the loader pins, the front axle, and the PTO shaft, every 10 engine hours. The last grease went in at 452 on September 20, so the next one comes due at 462, ten hours of seat time later. In season that is about two weeks.

October 5 was a long day, and the meter got read twice: the morning dash said 455, the evening dash said 462, both numbers in one ask to Muse. The grease gun came out after supper and the job went in at 462. Two readings on the same day and a completion right behind them, and the clock restarted from the last reading logged that day: the evening dash at 462, so next grease lands at 472, 10 hours left. Morning and evening dashes are a normal day here, and the next completion still lands.

Engine oil and filter run on the OR rule: every 50 engine hours or every 12 months, whichever comes first. The last oil went in at 437 on August 1, so the row reads 487 on the hour side and August 1, 2027 on the calendar, 25 hours left at the 462 dash. The board takes whichever lands first. Oil had no job that day, and the row still counts from 437.

Hydraulic fluid and its filter carry the longest clock on the tractor: every 200 engine hours, one fluid for the hydrostatic transmission and the loader. Last service at 380 on June 6, next due at 580, 118 hours left at 462. The shop preference rides on the tractor too: say Always Valley Kubota once and the next hydraulic booking starts there without you naming the shop again.

Some rows are checks. The air filter gets looked at every 100 engine hours on its own row, cleaned when the element comes out dirty. The evening dash at 462 landed it on the board: last cleaned at 362 back in May, due again at 462, and the element came out for a blow-out the next morning. One ask logged it and the row went quiet.

Outbound, the board calls ChatGPT. One subscription and ChatGPT hears when the hours you log put a job on the board: a signed webhook names the job and how late. An agent that speaks MCP can hear the same board. The ping arrives without anyone asking.

On October 7 the owner asks Muse what's due on the Kubota. One answer carries every row with its hours left: grease at 472 with 10 left, oil at 487 with 25 left or August 1, 2027 on the calendar side, hydraulic fluid at 580 with 118 out, the air filter cleared the day before, the deck and the shaft waiting for November 1. Nothing overdue, and the board says that plainly too. The board subtracts and names what is left, and no model sits in that path.

The deck and the shafts keep calendar days. The 1st of the month is the deck scrape and the PTO look-over: deck scraped clean, the PTO shaft slid out and greased, the shields checked, a glance at the loader pins while the loader is up. October 1 was the last one, so the next reads November 1. A late chore does not slide the date; the next look-over stays on the 1st.

The season leaves observations too. A fitting that wept at the loader cylinder, the deck belt that squealed on a cold start, the box blade that wants the top link a click shorter: the note rides with the reading in the same ask. Muse keeps each one on the row it belongs to, so the tractor's history stays with the tractor. The grease-stained notebook in the cab can retire.

The day the tractor sells, one word, archived. Muse archives the Kubota and the due board drops it that day, and the history stays: years of oil dates and hour readings, what the meter read at each change, the receipts beside them. If the sale falls through, one ask puts it back on the board.

One line, said plainly: Maintenance Due is a personal due board and service log for the tractor. It keeps the readings and the notes you give it. The meter read what it read, and the board counts the hours and the days you tell it.

The equipment log on /equipment-maintenance-log shows how engine-hour rows look. The Muse prompt lives on /for-your-agent. Free.