When is it cheaper to rent a chain saw by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $90 day rate would be $270, but the weekly rate caps it at $225.

When is it cheaper to rent a chain saw on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $600 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.

chain saw

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Mike Allen · Chain Saws

Day: $90
Week: $225
28 days: $600

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $270. On the week rate it is $225.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $1,440. On the 28-day rate it is $600.

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 chain saw, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$90	$90	—	day
2	$180	$180	—	day
3	$270	$225	you save $45	week
4	$360	$225	you save $135	week
5	$450	$225	you save $225	week
6	$540	$225	you save $315	week
7	$630	$225	you save $405	week
8	$720	$315	you save $405	week
9	$810	$405	you save $405	week
10	$900	$450	you save $450	week
11	$990	$450	you save $540	week
12	$1,080	$450	you save $630	week
13	$1,170	$450	you save $720	week
14	$1,260	$450	you save $810	week
15	$1,350	$540	you save $810	week
16	$1,440	$600	you save $840	28-day
17	$1,530	$600	you save $930	28-day
18	$1,620	$600	you save $1,020	28-day
19	$1,710	$600	you save $1,110	28-day
20	$1,800	$600	you save $1,200	28-day
21	$1,890	$600	you save $1,290	28-day
22	$1,980	$600	you save $1,380	28-day
23	$2,070	$600	you save $1,470	28-day
24	$2,160	$600	you save $1,560	28-day
25	$2,250	$600	you save $1,650	28-day
26	$2,340	$600	you save $1,740	28-day
27	$2,430	$600	you save $1,830	28-day
28	$2,520	$600	you save $1,920	28-day
29	$2,610	$690	you save $1,920	day
30	$2,700	$780	you save $1,920	day
31	$2,790	$825	you save $1,965	week
32	$2,880	$825	you save $2,055	week
33	$2,970	$825	you save $2,145	week
34	$3,060	$825	you save $2,235	week
35	$3,150	$825	you save $2,325	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.