When is it cheaper to rent a Beast 84inch Grapple Attachment by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $190 day rate would be $950, but the weekly rate caps it at $850.

When is it cheaper to rent a Beast 84inch Grapple Attachment on the 28-day rate?

From day 11. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,600 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.

Beast 84inch Grapple Attachment

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Kevin Martin · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $190
Week: $850
28 days: $1,600

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $950. On the week rate it is $850.

Weekly stops winning on

day 11

11 days at the day rate would be $2,090. On the 28-day rate it is $1,600.

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 Beast 84inch Grapple Attachment, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$190	$190	—	day
2	$380	$380	—	day
3	$570	$570	—	day
4	$760	$760	—	day
5	$950	$850	you save $100	week
6	$1,140	$850	you save $290	week
7	$1,330	$850	you save $480	week
8	$1,520	$1,040	you save $480	week
9	$1,710	$1,230	you save $480	week
10	$1,900	$1,420	you save $480	week
11	$2,090	$1,600	you save $490	28-day
12	$2,280	$1,600	you save $680	28-day
13	$2,470	$1,600	you save $870	28-day
14	$2,660	$1,600	you save $1,060	28-day
15	$2,850	$1,600	you save $1,250	28-day
16	$3,040	$1,600	you save $1,440	28-day
17	$3,230	$1,600	you save $1,630	28-day
18	$3,420	$1,600	you save $1,820	28-day
19	$3,610	$1,600	you save $2,010	28-day
20	$3,800	$1,600	you save $2,200	28-day
21	$3,990	$1,600	you save $2,390	28-day
22	$4,180	$1,600	you save $2,580	28-day
23	$4,370	$1,600	you save $2,770	28-day
24	$4,560	$1,600	you save $2,960	28-day
25	$4,750	$1,600	you save $3,150	28-day
26	$4,940	$1,600	you save $3,340	28-day
27	$5,130	$1,600	you save $3,530	28-day
28	$5,320	$1,600	you save $3,720	28-day
29	$5,510	$1,790	you save $3,720	day
30	$5,700	$1,980	you save $3,720	day
31	$5,890	$2,170	you save $3,720	day
32	$6,080	$2,360	you save $3,720	day
33	$6,270	$2,450	you save $3,820	week
34	$6,460	$2,450	you save $4,010	week
35	$6,650	$2,450	you save $4,200	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 · 11 days: $1,600
Rental protection (RPP): $240
Service fee: $160
Estimated total: $2,000

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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.