When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 35G Compact Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $250 day rate would be $1,000, but the weekly rate caps it at $800.

When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 35G Compact Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,000 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.

John Deere 35G Compact Excavator

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Toby · Excavators - Mini

Day: $250
Week: $800
28 days: $3,000

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,000. On the week rate it is $800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $6,000. On the 28-day rate it is $3,000.

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 John Deere 35G Compact Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$250	$250	—	day
2	$500	$500	—	day
3	$750	$750	—	day
4	$1,000	$800	you save $200	week
5	$1,250	$800	you save $450	week
6	$1,500	$800	you save $700	week
7	$1,750	$800	you save $950	week
8	$2,000	$1,050	you save $950	week
9	$2,250	$1,300	you save $950	week
10	$2,500	$1,550	you save $950	week
11	$2,750	$1,600	you save $1,150	week
12	$3,000	$1,600	you save $1,400	week
13	$3,250	$1,600	you save $1,650	week
14	$3,500	$1,600	you save $1,900	week
15	$3,750	$1,850	you save $1,900	week
16	$4,000	$2,100	you save $1,900	week
17	$4,250	$2,350	you save $1,900	week
18	$4,500	$2,400	you save $2,100	week
19	$4,750	$2,400	you save $2,350	week
20	$5,000	$2,400	you save $2,600	week
21	$5,250	$2,400	you save $2,850	week
22	$5,500	$2,650	you save $2,850	week
23	$5,750	$2,900	you save $2,850	week
24	$6,000	$3,000	you save $3,000	28-day
25	$6,250	$3,000	you save $3,250	28-day
26	$6,500	$3,000	you save $3,500	28-day
27	$6,750	$3,000	you save $3,750	28-day
28	$7,000	$3,000	you save $4,000	28-day
29	$7,250	$3,250	you save $4,000	day
30	$7,500	$3,500	you save $4,000	day
31	$7,750	$3,750	you save $4,000	day
32	$8,000	$3,800	you save $4,200	week
33	$8,250	$3,800	you save $4,450	week
34	$8,500	$3,800	you save $4,700	week
35	$8,750	$3,800	you save $4,950	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 · 24 days: $3,000
Rental protection (RPP): $450
Service fee: $300
Estimated total: $3,750

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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.