When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty Skid Steer Tree Spade by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $255 day rate would be $1,530, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,275.

When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty Skid Steer Tree Spade on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,250 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.

Heavy-Duty Skid Steer Tree Spade

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Concrete & Epoxy By CSI · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $255
Week: $1,275
28 days: $4,250

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,530. On the week rate it is $1,275.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $5,865. On the 28-day rate it is $4,250.

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 Heavy-Duty Skid Steer Tree Spade, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$255	$255	—	day
2	$510	$510	—	day
3	$765	$765	—	day
4	$1,020	$1,020	—	day
5	$1,275	$1,275	—	day
6	$1,530	$1,275	you save $255	week
7	$1,785	$1,275	you save $510	week
8	$2,040	$1,530	you save $510	week
9	$2,295	$1,785	you save $510	week
10	$2,550	$2,040	you save $510	week
11	$2,805	$2,295	you save $510	week
12	$3,060	$2,550	you save $510	week
13	$3,315	$2,550	you save $765	week
14	$3,570	$2,550	you save $1,020	week
15	$3,825	$2,805	you save $1,020	week
16	$4,080	$3,060	you save $1,020	week
17	$4,335	$3,315	you save $1,020	week
18	$4,590	$3,570	you save $1,020	week
19	$4,845	$3,825	you save $1,020	week
20	$5,100	$3,825	you save $1,275	week
21	$5,355	$3,825	you save $1,530	week
22	$5,610	$4,080	you save $1,530	week
23	$5,865	$4,250	you save $1,615	28-day
24	$6,120	$4,250	you save $1,870	28-day
25	$6,375	$4,250	you save $2,125	28-day
26	$6,630	$4,250	you save $2,380	28-day
27	$6,885	$4,250	you save $2,635	28-day
28	$7,140	$4,250	you save $2,890	28-day
29	$7,395	$4,505	you save $2,890	day
30	$7,650	$4,760	you save $2,890	day
31	$7,905	$5,015	you save $2,890	day
32	$8,160	$5,270	you save $2,890	day
33	$8,415	$5,525	you save $2,890	day
34	$8,670	$5,525	you save $3,145	week
35	$8,925	$5,525	you save $3,400	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 · 23 days: $4,250
Rental protection (RPP): $637.50
Service fee: $425
Estimated total: $5,312.50

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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.