When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota U35-4 Excavator which includes 12" and 18" buckets on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,088 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Kubota U35-4 Excavator which includes 12" and 18" buckets by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $240 day rate would be $960, but the weekly rate caps it at $890.

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.

Kubota U35-4 Excavator which includes 12" and 18" buckets

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JCarr Rentals · Excavators - Mini

Day: $240
Week: $890
28 days: $2,088

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $960. On the week rate it is $890.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $3,840. On the 28-day rate it is $2,088.

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 Kubota U35-4 Excavator which includes 12" and 18" buckets, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$240	$240	—	day
2	$480	$480	—	day
3	$720	$720	—	day
4	$960	$890	you save $70	week
5	$1,200	$890	you save $310	week
6	$1,440	$890	you save $550	week
7	$1,680	$890	you save $790	week
8	$1,920	$1,130	you save $790	week
9	$2,160	$1,370	you save $790	week
10	$2,400	$1,610	you save $790	week
11	$2,640	$1,780	you save $860	week
12	$2,880	$1,780	you save $1,100	week
13	$3,120	$1,780	you save $1,340	week
14	$3,360	$1,780	you save $1,580	week
15	$3,600	$2,020	you save $1,580	week
16	$3,840	$2,088	you save $1,752	28-day
17	$4,080	$2,088	you save $1,992	28-day
18	$4,320	$2,088	you save $2,232	28-day
19	$4,560	$2,088	you save $2,472	28-day
20	$4,800	$2,088	you save $2,712	28-day
21	$5,040	$2,088	you save $2,952	28-day
22	$5,280	$2,088	you save $3,192	28-day
23	$5,520	$2,088	you save $3,432	28-day
24	$5,760	$2,088	you save $3,672	28-day
25	$6,000	$2,088	you save $3,912	28-day
26	$6,240	$2,088	you save $4,152	28-day
27	$6,480	$2,088	you save $4,392	28-day
28	$6,720	$2,088	you save $4,632	28-day
29	$6,960	$2,328	you save $4,632	day
30	$7,200	$2,568	you save $4,632	day
31	$7,440	$2,808	you save $4,632	day
32	$7,680	$2,978	you save $4,702	week
33	$7,920	$2,978	you save $4,942	week
34	$8,160	$2,978	you save $5,182	week
35	$8,400	$2,978	you save $5,422	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 · 16 days: $2,088
Rental protection (RPP): $313.20
Service fee: $208.80
Estimated total: $2,610

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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.