When is it cheaper to rent a Bear Iron Works Koala Rock Screen by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $178.50 day rate would be $1,249.50, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,071.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bear Iron Works Koala Rock Screen on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,570 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.

Bear Iron Works Koala Rock Screen

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Tim Cayer · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $178.50
Week: $1,071
28 days: $3,570

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,249.50. On the week rate it is $1,071.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $4,105.50. On the 28-day rate it is $3,570.

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 Bear Iron Works Koala Rock Screen, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$178.50	$178.50	—	day
2	$357	$357	—	day
3	$535.50	$535.50	—	day
4	$714	$714	—	day
5	$892.50	$892.50	—	day
6	$1,071	$1,071	—	day
7	$1,249.50	$1,071	you save $178.50	week
8	$1,428	$1,249.50	you save $178.50	week
9	$1,606.50	$1,428	you save $178.50	week
10	$1,785	$1,606.50	you save $178.50	week
11	$1,963.50	$1,785	you save $178.50	week
12	$2,142	$1,963.50	you save $178.50	week
13	$2,320.50	$2,142	you save $178.50	week
14	$2,499	$2,142	you save $357	week
15	$2,677.50	$2,320.50	you save $357	week
16	$2,856	$2,499	you save $357	week
17	$3,034.50	$2,677.50	you save $357	week
18	$3,213	$2,856	you save $357	week
19	$3,391.50	$3,034.50	you save $357	week
20	$3,570	$3,213	you save $357	week
21	$3,748.50	$3,213	you save $535.50	week
22	$3,927	$3,391.50	you save $535.50	week
23	$4,105.50	$3,570	you save $535.50	28-day
24	$4,284	$3,570	you save $714	28-day
25	$4,462.50	$3,570	you save $892.50	28-day
26	$4,641	$3,570	you save $1,071	28-day
27	$4,819.50	$3,570	you save $1,249.50	28-day
28	$4,998	$3,570	you save $1,428	28-day
29	$5,176.50	$3,748.50	you save $1,428	day
30	$5,355	$3,927	you save $1,428	day
31	$5,533.50	$4,105.50	you save $1,428	day
32	$5,712	$4,284	you save $1,428	day
33	$5,890.50	$4,462.50	you save $1,428	day
34	$6,069	$4,641	you save $1,428	day
35	$6,247.50	$4,641	you save $1,606.50	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: $3,570
Rental protection (RPP): $535.50
Service fee: $357
Estimated total: $4,462.50

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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.