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.

Handy HSC78 Power Rake

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Robert Gordon · Brush Mower

Day
$210
Week
$600
28 days
$1,750

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $630. On the week rate it is $600.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $3,570. On the 28-day rate it is $1,750.

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 Handy HSC78 Power Rake, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$210$210—day
2$420$420—day
3$630$600you save $30week
4$840$600you save $240week
5$1,050$600you save $450week
6$1,260$600you save $660week
7$1,470$600you save $870week
8$1,680$810you save $870week
9$1,890$1,020you save $870week
10$2,100$1,200you save $900week
11$2,310$1,200you save $1,110week
12$2,520$1,200you save $1,320week
13$2,730$1,200you save $1,530week
14$2,940$1,200you save $1,740week
15$3,150$1,410you save $1,740week
16$3,360$1,620you save $1,740week
17$3,570$1,750you save $1,82028-day
18$3,780$1,750you save $2,03028-day
19$3,990$1,750you save $2,24028-day
20$4,200$1,750you save $2,45028-day
21$4,410$1,750you save $2,66028-day
22$4,620$1,750you save $2,87028-day
23$4,830$1,750you save $3,08028-day
24$5,040$1,750you save $3,29028-day
25$5,250$1,750you save $3,50028-day
26$5,460$1,750you save $3,71028-day
27$5,670$1,750you save $3,92028-day
28$5,880$1,750you save $4,13028-day
29$6,090$1,960you save $4,130day
30$6,300$2,170you save $4,130day
31$6,510$2,350you save $4,160week
32$6,720$2,350you save $4,370week
33$6,930$2,350you save $4,580week
34$7,140$2,350you save $4,790week
35$7,350$2,350you save $5,000week

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.