When is it cheaper to rent a Erskine 2410 skidsteer snowblower by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $240 day rate would be $960, but the weekly rate caps it at $800.

When is it cheaper to rent a Erskine 2410 skidsteer snowblower on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,850 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.

Erskine 2410 skidsteer snowblower

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Robert Gordon · Snow Blowers

Day: $240
Week: $800
28 days: $1,850

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $960. On the week rate it is $800.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $3,840. On the 28-day rate it is $1,850.

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 Erskine 2410 skidsteer snowblower, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$240	$240	—	day
2	$480	$480	—	day
3	$720	$720	—	day
4	$960	$800	you save $160	week
5	$1,200	$800	you save $400	week
6	$1,440	$800	you save $640	week
7	$1,680	$800	you save $880	week
8	$1,920	$1,040	you save $880	week
9	$2,160	$1,280	you save $880	week
10	$2,400	$1,520	you save $880	week
11	$2,640	$1,600	you save $1,040	week
12	$2,880	$1,600	you save $1,280	week
13	$3,120	$1,600	you save $1,520	week
14	$3,360	$1,600	you save $1,760	week
15	$3,600	$1,840	you save $1,760	week
16	$3,840	$1,850	you save $1,990	28-day
17	$4,080	$1,850	you save $2,230	28-day
18	$4,320	$1,850	you save $2,470	28-day
19	$4,560	$1,850	you save $2,710	28-day
20	$4,800	$1,850	you save $2,950	28-day
21	$5,040	$1,850	you save $3,190	28-day
22	$5,280	$1,850	you save $3,430	28-day
23	$5,520	$1,850	you save $3,670	28-day
24	$5,760	$1,850	you save $3,910	28-day
25	$6,000	$1,850	you save $4,150	28-day
26	$6,240	$1,850	you save $4,390	28-day
27	$6,480	$1,850	you save $4,630	28-day
28	$6,720	$1,850	you save $4,870	28-day
29	$6,960	$2,090	you save $4,870	day
30	$7,200	$2,330	you save $4,870	day
31	$7,440	$2,570	you save $4,870	day
32	$7,680	$2,650	you save $5,030	week
33	$7,920	$2,650	you save $5,270	week
34	$8,160	$2,650	you save $5,510	week
35	$8,400	$2,650	you save $5,750	week

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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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.