Well first off this is going to get used weekly year round, so there is no avoiding the salt.
Second off, have any of you looked at the new steel livestock trailers? For $6000, they're made of cheap thin tubing for the frame, and beer cans for the sheeting. They don't last. 10 years and they're rusted completely away.
Yesterday I watched a completely rusted out 16' livestock trailer with four ancient rotten bias tires bring $1000 at an auction. A few weeks ago, I watched a 2013 Corn Pro 16' trailer with visible rust-through bring almost $4000.
A landscape trailer is built of better stuff. I see 10-15 year old examples all the time that look like new structurally, just surface rust. You can get one of these for $1000-$1500, and new ones can be had for $2500.
That leaves me with a budget of $3500 to build a cage. I bet I could get it done for <$1500. Sandblast and paint? Who needs that? Mill scale is the best anti-rust coating known to man. Heck, rust is the best anti-rust coating known to man.
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