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.

log splitter

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Gregory Fields

Day
$50
Week
$263
28 days
$975

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $300. On the week rate it is $263.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $1,250. On the 28-day rate it is $975.

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 log splitter, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$50$50—day
2$100$100—day
3$150$150—day
4$200$200—day
5$250$250—day
6$300$263you save $37week
7$350$263you save $87week
8$400$313you save $87week
9$450$363you save $87week
10$500$413you save $87week
11$550$463you save $87week
12$600$513you save $87week
13$650$526you save $124week
14$700$526you save $174week
15$750$576you save $174week
16$800$626you save $174week
17$850$676you save $174week
18$900$726you save $174week
19$950$776you save $174week
20$1,000$789you save $211week
21$1,050$789you save $261week
22$1,100$839you save $261week
23$1,150$889you save $261week
24$1,200$939you save $261week
25$1,250$975you save $27528-day
26$1,300$975you save $32528-day
27$1,350$975you save $37528-day
28$1,400$975you save $42528-day
29$1,450$1,025you save $425day
30$1,500$1,075you save $425day
31$1,550$1,125you save $425day
32$1,600$1,175you save $425day
33$1,650$1,225you save $425day
34$1,700$1,238you save $462week
35$1,750$1,238you save $512week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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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.