I’m not sure you will find anything cheap because it’s just expensive to make and ship a parrot tree stand. There are a few inexpensive plastic ones but that is just lame. Personally I never liked Manzanita because of how smooth and slippery it is.
I ended up coming up with my own line of bird trees and stands because I couldn’t find what I wanted. The good news is that since they are all part of a series, you can let your parrot get used to the perches on their own time in the cage. Put a NU Perch in the cage for a while and then when it comes time to use one of my
Training Perches,
Scale,
Window Perch,
Tabletop, or
Tree, the bird is already familiar with the wood and not scared.
You can’t order a natural parrot tree online cause you never know what you’ll get. Each one is different from the picture and the one you end up with will probably be the weird one with downward dropping branches the bird can’t go on.
Another major issue with natural trees is that the bird will usually just sit on top and poop on all the branches beneath. Luckily on my
NU perch trees the perches can be removed for easy cleaning and replaced somewhere that is not the bird’s favorite pooping spot!
And of course all of my NU Perch products are totally safe! They are built with parrot safety in mind from the bottom up! Bird safe wood, stainless steel hardware, no paint. Even the border on the base is untreated. I've seen other birds bite off pieces of the base border on other trees so I opted to make it safer rather than nicer by not painting it.
For a Grey the best choices are
Medium,
Perfect, or
Tabletop Tree.
Perfect TreeYou can also try a Tabletop PerchOr a Tabletop Tree