When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty Grapple Bucket by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $153 day rate would be $918, but the weekly rate caps it at $765.

When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty Grapple Bucket on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,550 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.

Heavy-Duty Grapple Bucket

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Coldspring Rental · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $153
Week: $765
28 days: $2,550

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $918. On the week rate it is $765.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $3,519. On the 28-day rate it is $2,550.

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 Heavy-Duty Grapple Bucket, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$153	$153	—	day
2	$306	$306	—	day
3	$459	$459	—	day
4	$612	$612	—	day
5	$765	$765	—	day
6	$918	$765	you save $153	week
7	$1,071	$765	you save $306	week
8	$1,224	$918	you save $306	week
9	$1,377	$1,071	you save $306	week
10	$1,530	$1,224	you save $306	week
11	$1,683	$1,377	you save $306	week
12	$1,836	$1,530	you save $306	week
13	$1,989	$1,530	you save $459	week
14	$2,142	$1,530	you save $612	week
15	$2,295	$1,683	you save $612	week
16	$2,448	$1,836	you save $612	week
17	$2,601	$1,989	you save $612	week
18	$2,754	$2,142	you save $612	week
19	$2,907	$2,295	you save $612	week
20	$3,060	$2,295	you save $765	week
21	$3,213	$2,295	you save $918	week
22	$3,366	$2,448	you save $918	week
23	$3,519	$2,550	you save $969	28-day
24	$3,672	$2,550	you save $1,122	28-day
25	$3,825	$2,550	you save $1,275	28-day
26	$3,978	$2,550	you save $1,428	28-day
27	$4,131	$2,550	you save $1,581	28-day
28	$4,284	$2,550	you save $1,734	28-day
29	$4,437	$2,703	you save $1,734	day
30	$4,590	$2,856	you save $1,734	day
31	$4,743	$3,009	you save $1,734	day
32	$4,896	$3,162	you save $1,734	day
33	$5,049	$3,315	you save $1,734	day
34	$5,202	$3,315	you save $1,887	week
35	$5,355	$3,315	you save $2,040	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 · 23 days: $2,550
Rental protection (RPP): $382.50
Service fee: $255
Estimated total: $3,187.50

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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.