When is it cheaper to rent a Billy Goat 18" Sod Cutter, #10 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $141 day rate would be $564, but the weekly rate caps it at $553.

When is it cheaper to rent a Billy Goat 18" Sod Cutter, #10 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,657 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.

Billy Goat 18" Sod Cutter, #10

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Sod Cutters

Day: $141
Week: $553
28 days: $1,657

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $564. On the week rate it is $553.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,538. On the 28-day rate it is $1,657.

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 Billy Goat 18" Sod Cutter, #10, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$141	$141	—	day
2	$282	$282	—	day
3	$423	$423	—	day
4	$564	$553	you save $11	week
5	$705	$553	you save $152	week
6	$846	$553	you save $293	week
7	$987	$553	you save $434	week
8	$1,128	$694	you save $434	week
9	$1,269	$835	you save $434	week
10	$1,410	$976	you save $434	week
11	$1,551	$1,106	you save $445	week
12	$1,692	$1,106	you save $586	week
13	$1,833	$1,106	you save $727	week
14	$1,974	$1,106	you save $868	week
15	$2,115	$1,247	you save $868	week
16	$2,256	$1,388	you save $868	week
17	$2,397	$1,529	you save $868	week
18	$2,538	$1,657	you save $881	28-day
19	$2,679	$1,657	you save $1,022	28-day
20	$2,820	$1,657	you save $1,163	28-day
21	$2,961	$1,657	you save $1,304	28-day
22	$3,102	$1,657	you save $1,445	28-day
23	$3,243	$1,657	you save $1,586	28-day
24	$3,384	$1,657	you save $1,727	28-day
25	$3,525	$1,657	you save $1,868	28-day
26	$3,666	$1,657	you save $2,009	28-day
27	$3,807	$1,657	you save $2,150	28-day
28	$3,948	$1,657	you save $2,291	28-day
29	$4,089	$1,798	you save $2,291	day
30	$4,230	$1,939	you save $2,291	day
31	$4,371	$2,080	you save $2,291	day
32	$4,512	$2,210	you save $2,302	week
33	$4,653	$2,210	you save $2,443	week
34	$4,794	$2,210	you save $2,584	week
35	$4,935	$2,210	you save $2,725	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 · 18 days: $1,657
Rental protection (RPP): $248.55
Service fee: $165.70
Estimated total: $2,071.25

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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.