When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere Skid Steer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $420 day rate would be $1,680, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,400.

When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere Skid Steer on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,200 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.

John Deere Skid Steer

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LDR Estate · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $420
Week: $1,400
28 days: $4,200

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,680. On the week rate it is $1,400.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $7,560. On the 28-day rate it is $4,200.

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 John Deere Skid Steer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$420	$420	—	day
2	$840	$840	—	day
3	$1,260	$1,260	—	day
4	$1,680	$1,400	you save $280	week
5	$2,100	$1,400	you save $700	week
6	$2,520	$1,400	you save $1,120	week
7	$2,940	$1,400	you save $1,540	week
8	$3,360	$1,820	you save $1,540	week
9	$3,780	$2,240	you save $1,540	week
10	$4,200	$2,660	you save $1,540	week
11	$4,620	$2,800	you save $1,820	week
12	$5,040	$2,800	you save $2,240	week
13	$5,460	$2,800	you save $2,660	week
14	$5,880	$2,800	you save $3,080	week
15	$6,300	$3,220	you save $3,080	week
16	$6,720	$3,640	you save $3,080	week
17	$7,140	$4,060	you save $3,080	week
18	$7,560	$4,200	you save $3,360	28-day
19	$7,980	$4,200	you save $3,780	28-day
20	$8,400	$4,200	you save $4,200	28-day
21	$8,820	$4,200	you save $4,620	28-day
22	$9,240	$4,200	you save $5,040	28-day
23	$9,660	$4,200	you save $5,460	28-day
24	$10,080	$4,200	you save $5,880	28-day
25	$10,500	$4,200	you save $6,300	28-day
26	$10,920	$4,200	you save $6,720	28-day
27	$11,340	$4,200	you save $7,140	28-day
28	$11,760	$4,200	you save $7,560	28-day
29	$12,180	$4,620	you save $7,560	day
30	$12,600	$5,040	you save $7,560	day
31	$13,020	$5,460	you save $7,560	day
32	$13,440	$5,600	you save $7,840	week
33	$13,860	$5,600	you save $8,260	week
34	$14,280	$5,600	you save $8,680	week
35	$14,700	$5,600	you save $9,100	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.