When is it cheaper to rent a Skid Steer 5ft Trencher Attachment by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $153 day rate would be $612, but the weekly rate caps it at $510.

When is it cheaper to rent a Skid Steer 5ft Trencher Attachment on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,530 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.

Skid Steer 5ft Trencher Attachment

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Coldspring Rental · Loaders - Skid Steers - Attachments

Day: $153
Week: $510
28 days: $1,530

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $612. On the week rate it is $510.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,754. On the 28-day rate it is $1,530.

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 Skid Steer 5ft Trencher Attachment, 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	$510	you save $102	week
5	$765	$510	you save $255	week
6	$918	$510	you save $408	week
7	$1,071	$510	you save $561	week
8	$1,224	$663	you save $561	week
9	$1,377	$816	you save $561	week
10	$1,530	$969	you save $561	week
11	$1,683	$1,020	you save $663	week
12	$1,836	$1,020	you save $816	week
13	$1,989	$1,020	you save $969	week
14	$2,142	$1,020	you save $1,122	week
15	$2,295	$1,173	you save $1,122	week
16	$2,448	$1,326	you save $1,122	week
17	$2,601	$1,479	you save $1,122	week
18	$2,754	$1,530	you save $1,224	28-day
19	$2,907	$1,530	you save $1,377	28-day
20	$3,060	$1,530	you save $1,530	28-day
21	$3,213	$1,530	you save $1,683	28-day
22	$3,366	$1,530	you save $1,836	28-day
23	$3,519	$1,530	you save $1,989	28-day
24	$3,672	$1,530	you save $2,142	28-day
25	$3,825	$1,530	you save $2,295	28-day
26	$3,978	$1,530	you save $2,448	28-day
27	$4,131	$1,530	you save $2,601	28-day
28	$4,284	$1,530	you save $2,754	28-day
29	$4,437	$1,683	you save $2,754	day
30	$4,590	$1,836	you save $2,754	day
31	$4,743	$1,989	you save $2,754	day
32	$4,896	$2,040	you save $2,856	week
33	$5,049	$2,040	you save $3,009	week
34	$5,202	$2,040	you save $3,162	week
35	$5,355	$2,040	you save $3,315	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.