When is it cheaper to rent a Wood Chipper Shredder by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $150 day rate would be $750, but the weekly rate caps it at $735.

When is it cheaper to rent a Wood Chipper Shredder on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,800 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.

Wood Chipper Shredder

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SJV Equipment Rentals · Wood and Brush Chippers - Gasoline

Day: $150
Week: $735
28 days: $1,800

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $750. On the week rate it is $735.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $2,550. On the 28-day rate it is $1,800.

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 Wood Chipper Shredder, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$150	$150	—	day
2	$300	$300	—	day
3	$450	$450	—	day
4	$600	$600	—	day
5	$750	$735	you save $15	week
6	$900	$735	you save $165	week
7	$1,050	$735	you save $315	week
8	$1,200	$885	you save $315	week
9	$1,350	$1,035	you save $315	week
10	$1,500	$1,185	you save $315	week
11	$1,650	$1,335	you save $315	week
12	$1,800	$1,470	you save $330	week
13	$1,950	$1,470	you save $480	week
14	$2,100	$1,470	you save $630	week
15	$2,250	$1,620	you save $630	week
16	$2,400	$1,770	you save $630	week
17	$2,550	$1,800	you save $750	28-day
18	$2,700	$1,800	you save $900	28-day
19	$2,850	$1,800	you save $1,050	28-day
20	$3,000	$1,800	you save $1,200	28-day
21	$3,150	$1,800	you save $1,350	28-day
22	$3,300	$1,800	you save $1,500	28-day
23	$3,450	$1,800	you save $1,650	28-day
24	$3,600	$1,800	you save $1,800	28-day
25	$3,750	$1,800	you save $1,950	28-day
26	$3,900	$1,800	you save $2,100	28-day
27	$4,050	$1,800	you save $2,250	28-day
28	$4,200	$1,800	you save $2,400	28-day
29	$4,350	$1,950	you save $2,400	day
30	$4,500	$2,100	you save $2,400	day
31	$4,650	$2,250	you save $2,400	day
32	$4,800	$2,400	you save $2,400	day
33	$4,950	$2,535	you save $2,415	week
34	$5,100	$2,535	you save $2,565	week
35	$5,250	$2,535	you save $2,715	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.