When is it cheaper to rent a 6.5 Ton Electric Log Splitter by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $45 day rate would be $180, but the weekly rate caps it at $145.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6.5 Ton Electric Log Splitter on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $300 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.

6.5 Ton Electric Log Splitter

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Tom Rzeszutek

Day: $45
Week: $145
28 days: $300

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $180. On the week rate it is $145.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $675. On the 28-day rate it is $300.

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 6.5 Ton Electric Log Splitter, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$45	$45	—	day
2	$90	$90	—	day
3	$135	$135	—	day
4	$180	$145	you save $35	week
5	$225	$145	you save $80	week
6	$270	$145	you save $125	week
7	$315	$145	you save $170	week
8	$360	$190	you save $170	week
9	$405	$235	you save $170	week
10	$450	$280	you save $170	week
11	$495	$290	you save $205	week
12	$540	$290	you save $250	week
13	$585	$290	you save $295	week
14	$630	$290	you save $340	week
15	$675	$300	you save $375	28-day
16	$720	$300	you save $420	28-day
17	$765	$300	you save $465	28-day
18	$810	$300	you save $510	28-day
19	$855	$300	you save $555	28-day
20	$900	$300	you save $600	28-day
21	$945	$300	you save $645	28-day
22	$990	$300	you save $690	28-day
23	$1,035	$300	you save $735	28-day
24	$1,080	$300	you save $780	28-day
25	$1,125	$300	you save $825	28-day
26	$1,170	$300	you save $870	28-day
27	$1,215	$300	you save $915	28-day
28	$1,260	$300	you save $960	28-day
29	$1,305	$345	you save $960	day
30	$1,350	$390	you save $960	day
31	$1,395	$435	you save $960	day
32	$1,440	$445	you save $995	week
33	$1,485	$445	you save $1,040	week
34	$1,530	$445	you save $1,085	week
35	$1,575	$445	you save $1,130	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.