When is it cheaper to rent a Super Handy 20-Ton Gas Horizontal Log Splitter by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $40 day rate would be $280, but the weekly rate caps it at $240.

When is it cheaper to rent a Super Handy 20-Ton Gas Horizontal Log Splitter on the 28-day rate?

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

Super Handy 20-Ton Gas Horizontal Log Splitter

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SDG Services

Day: $40
Week: $240
28 days: $900

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $280. On the week rate it is $240.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $1,040. On the 28-day rate it is $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 Super Handy 20-Ton Gas Horizontal Log Splitter, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$40	$40	—	day
2	$80	$80	—	day
3	$120	$120	—	day
4	$160	$160	—	day
5	$200	$200	—	day
6	$240	$240	—	day
7	$280	$240	you save $40	week
8	$320	$280	you save $40	week
9	$360	$320	you save $40	week
10	$400	$360	you save $40	week
11	$440	$400	you save $40	week
12	$480	$440	you save $40	week
13	$520	$480	you save $40	week
14	$560	$480	you save $80	week
15	$600	$520	you save $80	week
16	$640	$560	you save $80	week
17	$680	$600	you save $80	week
18	$720	$640	you save $80	week
19	$760	$680	you save $80	week
20	$800	$720	you save $80	week
21	$840	$720	you save $120	week
22	$880	$760	you save $120	week
23	$920	$800	you save $120	week
24	$960	$840	you save $120	week
25	$1,000	$880	you save $120	week
26	$1,040	$900	you save $140	28-day
27	$1,080	$900	you save $180	28-day
28	$1,120	$900	you save $220	28-day
29	$1,160	$940	you save $220	day
30	$1,200	$980	you save $220	day
31	$1,240	$1,020	you save $220	day
32	$1,280	$1,060	you save $220	day
33	$1,320	$1,100	you save $220	day
34	$1,360	$1,140	you save $220	day
35	$1,400	$1,140	you save $260	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 · 26 days: $900
Rental protection (RPP): $135
Service fee: $90
Estimated total: $1,125

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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.