When is it cheaper to rent a Dewalt 60v Chainsaw by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $110 day rate would be $440, but the weekly rate caps it at $350.

When is it cheaper to rent a Dewalt 60v Chainsaw on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $800 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.

Dewalt 60v Chainsaw

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Nathan Farey · Chain Saws - Electric

Day: $110
Week: $350
28 days: $800

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $440. On the week rate it is $350.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $1,650. On the 28-day rate it is $800.

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 Dewalt 60v Chainsaw, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$110	$110	—	day
2	$220	$220	—	day
3	$330	$330	—	day
4	$440	$350	you save $90	week
5	$550	$350	you save $200	week
6	$660	$350	you save $310	week
7	$770	$350	you save $420	week
8	$880	$460	you save $420	week
9	$990	$570	you save $420	week
10	$1,100	$680	you save $420	week
11	$1,210	$700	you save $510	week
12	$1,320	$700	you save $620	week
13	$1,430	$700	you save $730	week
14	$1,540	$700	you save $840	week
15	$1,650	$800	you save $850	28-day
16	$1,760	$800	you save $960	28-day
17	$1,870	$800	you save $1,070	28-day
18	$1,980	$800	you save $1,180	28-day
19	$2,090	$800	you save $1,290	28-day
20	$2,200	$800	you save $1,400	28-day
21	$2,310	$800	you save $1,510	28-day
22	$2,420	$800	you save $1,620	28-day
23	$2,530	$800	you save $1,730	28-day
24	$2,640	$800	you save $1,840	28-day
25	$2,750	$800	you save $1,950	28-day
26	$2,860	$800	you save $2,060	28-day
27	$2,970	$800	you save $2,170	28-day
28	$3,080	$800	you save $2,280	28-day
29	$3,190	$910	you save $2,280	day
30	$3,300	$1,020	you save $2,280	day
31	$3,410	$1,130	you save $2,280	day
32	$3,520	$1,150	you save $2,370	week
33	$3,630	$1,150	you save $2,480	week
34	$3,740	$1,150	you save $2,590	week
35	$3,850	$1,150	you save $2,700	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.