Fred, I rented one last year for a day.... seem to remember it being around 125 bucks for the day (cape cod rate).... one lesson I learned.... make sure to ask for one with sharp blades.... altho, being rentals, people run stuff thru them that they shouldn't... guy at the rental place told of the guy who rented one... wrecked it...he was shoveling clam shells into it, to do his driveway with...
wait till Jan 1st...have a nice brush fiah....