When is it cheaper to rent a log splitter by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $80 day rate would be $560, but the weekly rate caps it at $480.

When is it cheaper to rent a log splitter on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,900 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.

log splitter

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Daniel Baxter

Day: $80
Week: $480
28 days: $1,900

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $560. On the week rate it is $480.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $2,160. On the 28-day rate it is $1,900.

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 log splitter, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$160	—	day
3	$240	$240	—	day
4	$320	$320	—	day
5	$400	$400	—	day
6	$480	$480	—	day
7	$560	$480	you save $80	week
8	$640	$560	you save $80	week
9	$720	$640	you save $80	week
10	$800	$720	you save $80	week
11	$880	$800	you save $80	week
12	$960	$880	you save $80	week
13	$1,040	$960	you save $80	week
14	$1,120	$960	you save $160	week
15	$1,200	$1,040	you save $160	week
16	$1,280	$1,120	you save $160	week
17	$1,360	$1,200	you save $160	week
18	$1,440	$1,280	you save $160	week
19	$1,520	$1,360	you save $160	week
20	$1,600	$1,440	you save $160	week
21	$1,680	$1,440	you save $240	week
22	$1,760	$1,520	you save $240	week
23	$1,840	$1,600	you save $240	week
24	$1,920	$1,680	you save $240	week
25	$2,000	$1,760	you save $240	week
26	$2,080	$1,840	you save $240	week
27	$2,160	$1,900	you save $260	28-day
28	$2,240	$1,900	you save $340	28-day
29	$2,320	$1,980	you save $340	day
30	$2,400	$2,060	you save $340	day
31	$2,480	$2,140	you save $340	day
32	$2,560	$2,220	you save $340	day
33	$2,640	$2,300	you save $340	day
34	$2,720	$2,380	you save $340	day
35	$2,800	$2,380	you save $420	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 · 27 days: $1,900
Rental protection (RPP): $285
Service fee: $190
Estimated total: $2,375

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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.