When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat CT2025 Tractor with 5’ Finish Cutter by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $175 day rate would be $1,225, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,054.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat CT2025 Tractor with 5’ Finish Cutter on the 28-day rate?

From day 20. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,150 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.

Bobcat CT2025 Tractor with 5’ Finish Cutter

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Day: $175
Week: $1,054
28 days: $3,150

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,225. On the week rate it is $1,054.

Weekly stops winning on

day 20

20 days at the day rate would be $3,500. On the 28-day rate it is $3,150.

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 Bobcat CT2025 Tractor with 5’ Finish Cutter, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$525	—	day
4	$700	$700	—	day
5	$875	$875	—	day
6	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
7	$1,225	$1,054	you save $171	week
8	$1,400	$1,229	you save $171	week
9	$1,575	$1,404	you save $171	week
10	$1,750	$1,579	you save $171	week
11	$1,925	$1,754	you save $171	week
12	$2,100	$1,929	you save $171	week
13	$2,275	$2,104	you save $171	week
14	$2,450	$2,108	you save $342	week
15	$2,625	$2,283	you save $342	week
16	$2,800	$2,458	you save $342	week
17	$2,975	$2,633	you save $342	week
18	$3,150	$2,808	you save $342	week
19	$3,325	$2,983	you save $342	week
20	$3,500	$3,150	you save $350	28-day
21	$3,675	$3,150	you save $525	28-day
22	$3,850	$3,150	you save $700	28-day
23	$4,025	$3,150	you save $875	28-day
24	$4,200	$3,150	you save $1,050	28-day
25	$4,375	$3,150	you save $1,225	28-day
26	$4,550	$3,150	you save $1,400	28-day
27	$4,725	$3,150	you save $1,575	28-day
28	$4,900	$3,150	you save $1,750	28-day
29	$5,075	$3,325	you save $1,750	day
30	$5,250	$3,500	you save $1,750	day
31	$5,425	$3,675	you save $1,750	day
32	$5,600	$3,850	you save $1,750	day
33	$5,775	$4,025	you save $1,750	day
34	$5,950	$4,200	you save $1,750	day
35	$6,125	$4,204	you save $1,921	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.