When is it cheaper to rent a hole hawg by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $20 day rate would be $100, but the weekly rate caps it at $95.

When is it cheaper to rent a hole hawg on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. 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.

hole hawg

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Jeffrey MacLeod · Saws - Hole Saws

Day: $20
Week: $95
28 days: $300

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $100. On the week rate it is $95.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $440. 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 hole hawg, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$20	$20	—	day
2	$40	$40	—	day
3	$60	$60	—	day
4	$80	$80	—	day
5	$100	$95	you save $5	week
6	$120	$95	you save $25	week
7	$140	$95	you save $45	week
8	$160	$115	you save $45	week
9	$180	$135	you save $45	week
10	$200	$155	you save $45	week
11	$220	$175	you save $45	week
12	$240	$190	you save $50	week
13	$260	$190	you save $70	week
14	$280	$190	you save $90	week
15	$300	$210	you save $90	week
16	$320	$230	you save $90	week
17	$340	$250	you save $90	week
18	$360	$270	you save $90	week
19	$380	$285	you save $95	week
20	$400	$285	you save $115	week
21	$420	$285	you save $135	week
22	$440	$300	you save $140	28-day
23	$460	$300	you save $160	28-day
24	$480	$300	you save $180	28-day
25	$500	$300	you save $200	28-day
26	$520	$300	you save $220	28-day
27	$540	$300	you save $240	28-day
28	$560	$300	you save $260	28-day
29	$580	$320	you save $260	day
30	$600	$340	you save $260	day
31	$620	$360	you save $260	day
32	$640	$380	you save $260	day
33	$660	$395	you save $265	week
34	$680	$395	you save $285	week
35	$700	$395	you save $305	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 · 22 days: $300
Rental protection (RPP): $45
Service fee: $30
Estimated total: $375

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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.