When is it cheaper to rent a Massey Ferguson BH2720 backhoe by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $100 day rate would be $500, but the weekly rate caps it at $420.

When is it cheaper to rent a Massey Ferguson BH2720 backhoe on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,200 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.

Massey Ferguson BH2720 backhoe

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Brian Keister · Loaders - Backhoes

Day: $100
Week: $420
28 days: $1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $500. On the week rate it is $420.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $1,800. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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 Massey Ferguson BH2720 backhoe, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$100	$100	—	day
2	$200	$200	—	day
3	$300	$300	—	day
4	$400	$400	—	day
5	$500	$420	you save $80	week
6	$600	$420	you save $180	week
7	$700	$420	you save $280	week
8	$800	$520	you save $280	week
9	$900	$620	you save $280	week
10	$1,000	$720	you save $280	week
11	$1,100	$820	you save $280	week
12	$1,200	$840	you save $360	week
13	$1,300	$840	you save $460	week
14	$1,400	$840	you save $560	week
15	$1,500	$940	you save $560	week
16	$1,600	$1,040	you save $560	week
17	$1,700	$1,140	you save $560	week
18	$1,800	$1,200	you save $600	28-day
19	$1,900	$1,200	you save $700	28-day
20	$2,000	$1,200	you save $800	28-day
21	$2,100	$1,200	you save $900	28-day
22	$2,200	$1,200	you save $1,000	28-day
23	$2,300	$1,200	you save $1,100	28-day
24	$2,400	$1,200	you save $1,200	28-day
25	$2,500	$1,200	you save $1,300	28-day
26	$2,600	$1,200	you save $1,400	28-day
27	$2,700	$1,200	you save $1,500	28-day
28	$2,800	$1,200	you save $1,600	28-day
29	$2,900	$1,300	you save $1,600	day
30	$3,000	$1,400	you save $1,600	day
31	$3,100	$1,500	you save $1,600	day
32	$3,200	$1,600	you save $1,600	day
33	$3,300	$1,620	you save $1,680	week
34	$3,400	$1,620	you save $1,780	week
35	$3,500	$1,620	you save $1,880	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 · 18 days: $1,200
Rental protection (RPP): $180
Service fee: $120
Estimated total: $1,500

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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.