When is it cheaper to rent a Stihl Small Tiller by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $57 day rate would be $228, but the weekly rate caps it at $224.

When is it cheaper to rent a Stihl Small Tiller on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $670 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Stihl Small Tiller

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Tillers - Gasoline

Day: $57
Week: $224
28 days: $670

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $228. On the week rate it is $224.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $1,026. On the 28-day rate it is $670.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Stihl Small Tiller, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$57	$57	—	day
2	$114	$114	—	day
3	$171	$171	—	day
4	$228	$224	you save $4	week
5	$285	$224	you save $61	week
6	$342	$224	you save $118	week
7	$399	$224	you save $175	week
8	$456	$281	you save $175	week
9	$513	$338	you save $175	week
10	$570	$395	you save $175	week
11	$627	$448	you save $179	week
12	$684	$448	you save $236	week
13	$741	$448	you save $293	week
14	$798	$448	you save $350	week
15	$855	$505	you save $350	week
16	$912	$562	you save $350	week
17	$969	$619	you save $350	week
18	$1,026	$670	you save $356	28-day
19	$1,083	$670	you save $413	28-day
20	$1,140	$670	you save $470	28-day
21	$1,197	$670	you save $527	28-day
22	$1,254	$670	you save $584	28-day
23	$1,311	$670	you save $641	28-day
24	$1,368	$670	you save $698	28-day
25	$1,425	$670	you save $755	28-day
26	$1,482	$670	you save $812	28-day
27	$1,539	$670	you save $869	28-day
28	$1,596	$670	you save $926	28-day
29	$1,653	$727	you save $926	day
30	$1,710	$784	you save $926	day
31	$1,767	$841	you save $926	day
32	$1,824	$894	you save $930	week
33	$1,881	$894	you save $987	week
34	$1,938	$894	you save $1,044	week
35	$1,995	$894	you save $1,101	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 18 days: $670
Rental protection (RPP): $100.50
Service fee: $67
Estimated total: $837.50

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.