Long-term rent: $12.000 per month (just $17 per hour)
Buying construction machine or equipment allows you to use it any time and in flexible way. But on the other hand, in case of buying equipment, you would also need to assume storage costs, regular technical maintenance, repairs, selling it when you do not need it anymore.
Taking all this into consideration it is more feasible in many situations to rent construction equipment instead of buying it.