When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 17G Mini-Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $230 day rate would be $1,380, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,150.

When is it cheaper to rent a John Deere 17G Mini-Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,600 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.

John Deere 17G Mini-Excavator

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Toby · Excavators - Mini

Day: $230
Week: $1,150
28 days: $4,600

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,380. On the week rate it is $1,150.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $5,980. On the 28-day rate it is $4,600.

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 John Deere 17G Mini-Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$230	$230	—	day
2	$460	$460	—	day
3	$690	$690	—	day
4	$920	$920	—	day
5	$1,150	$1,150	—	day
6	$1,380	$1,150	you save $230	week
7	$1,610	$1,150	you save $460	week
8	$1,840	$1,380	you save $460	week
9	$2,070	$1,610	you save $460	week
10	$2,300	$1,840	you save $460	week
11	$2,530	$2,070	you save $460	week
12	$2,760	$2,300	you save $460	week
13	$2,990	$2,300	you save $690	week
14	$3,220	$2,300	you save $920	week
15	$3,450	$2,530	you save $920	week
16	$3,680	$2,760	you save $920	week
17	$3,910	$2,990	you save $920	week
18	$4,140	$3,220	you save $920	week
19	$4,370	$3,450	you save $920	week
20	$4,600	$3,450	you save $1,150	week
21	$4,830	$3,450	you save $1,380	week
22	$5,060	$3,680	you save $1,380	week
23	$5,290	$3,910	you save $1,380	week
24	$5,520	$4,140	you save $1,380	week
25	$5,750	$4,370	you save $1,380	week
26	$5,980	$4,600	you save $1,380	28-day
27	$6,210	$4,600	you save $1,610	28-day
28	$6,440	$4,600	you save $1,840	28-day
29	$6,670	$4,830	you save $1,840	day
30	$6,900	$5,060	you save $1,840	day
31	$7,130	$5,290	you save $1,840	day
32	$7,360	$5,520	you save $1,840	day
33	$7,590	$5,750	you save $1,840	day
34	$7,820	$5,750	you save $2,070	week
35	$8,050	$5,750	you save $2,300	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.