When is it cheaper to rent a Diamond Mowe skid-steer rotary mower by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $375 day rate would be $1,500, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,200.

When is it cheaper to rent a Diamond Mowe skid-steer rotary mower on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,000 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.

Diamond Mowe skid-steer rotary mower

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steve stephens · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $375
Week: $1,200
28 days: $4,000

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,500. On the week rate it is $1,200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $8,625. On the 28-day rate it is $4,000.

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 Diamond Mowe skid-steer rotary mower, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$375	$375	—	day
2	$750	$750	—	day
3	$1,125	$1,125	—	day
4	$1,500	$1,200	you save $300	week
5	$1,875	$1,200	you save $675	week
6	$2,250	$1,200	you save $1,050	week
7	$2,625	$1,200	you save $1,425	week
8	$3,000	$1,575	you save $1,425	week
9	$3,375	$1,950	you save $1,425	week
10	$3,750	$2,325	you save $1,425	week
11	$4,125	$2,400	you save $1,725	week
12	$4,500	$2,400	you save $2,100	week
13	$4,875	$2,400	you save $2,475	week
14	$5,250	$2,400	you save $2,850	week
15	$5,625	$2,775	you save $2,850	week
16	$6,000	$3,150	you save $2,850	week
17	$6,375	$3,525	you save $2,850	week
18	$6,750	$3,600	you save $3,150	week
19	$7,125	$3,600	you save $3,525	week
20	$7,500	$3,600	you save $3,900	week
21	$7,875	$3,600	you save $4,275	week
22	$8,250	$3,975	you save $4,275	week
23	$8,625	$4,000	you save $4,625	28-day
24	$9,000	$4,000	you save $5,000	28-day
25	$9,375	$4,000	you save $5,375	28-day
26	$9,750	$4,000	you save $5,750	28-day
27	$10,125	$4,000	you save $6,125	28-day
28	$10,500	$4,000	you save $6,500	28-day
29	$10,875	$4,375	you save $6,500	day
30	$11,250	$4,750	you save $6,500	day
31	$11,625	$5,125	you save $6,500	day
32	$12,000	$5,200	you save $6,800	week
33	$12,375	$5,200	you save $7,175	week
34	$12,750	$5,200	you save $7,550	week
35	$13,125	$5,200	you save $7,925	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.