Full-service tower contractor. Civil, steel, RF install, and lifecycle maintenance under one roof. 15 service lines from empty-dirt new builds to decommissioning and site restoration. WISPs, tribal nations, electric utilities, oil and gas, public safety, and municipal broadband. Nationwide, with crews ready to roll today from Alabama and Texas.
Vertical Axis runs civil, steel, and RF crews in-house. That means a new tower site is one contract, one schedule, and one number to call. Not five subcontractors with five change orders and five insurance certificates. And when the tower is up, the same crews come back for the modifications, the mods, the lighting, the re-tensioning, the storm response, and the decommissioning 20 years later.
Every service below is scoped to real code: TIA-222-H structural, FAA AC 70/7460-1M lighting, FCC Part 101 microwave, Motorola R56 grounding, OSHA 1926 / ANSI A10.48 safety. Every visit comes with documented photos, measured values, and a signed report your engineer, inspector, or insurance auditor can act on.
New builds, foundations, steel, and monopole structures.
Empty dirt to operational tower, one crew, one point of contact.
Excavation, rebar, concrete, grading, fencing, and ground rings.
Guyed, self-supporting, and monopole structures up to 300ft.
Foundation-free monopoles set into augered holes. Fast to deploy.
Design, antennas, radios, and cabling.
Coverage planning, sector layouts, and pre-deploy mock-ups.
Sector antennas, backhaul dishes, horn arrays, aligned and sealed.
Point-to-point links, redundant rings, licensed and unlicensed.
Antennas, radios, fiber, DC, and Cat6. Ubiquiti, Cambium, Mimosa, Tarana, Nokia, and more.
Mods, grounding, painting, lighting, inspections, and storm response.
Verify plumb, tension guys, correct storm-displaced structures.
Antenna swaps, coax and Heliax replacement, load-bearing upgrades.
FAA-compliant beacon, strobe, and side-light repairs. Bulb and LED replacement.
FAA-marked aviation orange and white, re-coats, and rust abatement.
Ground rings, exothermic welds, bonding to NEC and manufacturer spec.
Inspections, repairs, and post-storm response for a 20-year asset.
Full teardown, equipment salvage, foundation removal, and FCC / FAA closeout.
No service matches that search.
Scope unusual? Send it over anyway. If we don't do it, we know the right crew that does.
Send the location, the tower type, the scope, and the window. We come back with a line-itemed quote, a crew, and a schedule.
300+ ISPs served. Fluent in Ubiquiti, Tarana, Cambium, Mimosa, Nokia, and RF Elements. We don't price carrier rates for prosumer work.
New site builds, direct embedment monopoles, sector and backhaul, antenna and radio install, microwave backhaul, plumb and tension, maintenance.
Substation comms, SCADA backhaul, and distribution automation. Utility-grade grounding and licensed Part 101 microwave for teleprotection.
New site builds, foundations and civil, tower erection, microwave backhaul (TDM / E1 / teleprotection), grounding and cadwelding (IEEE 80 / 837), maintenance and inspection.
Wellhead SCADA, pipeline monitoring, and remote facility comms. Fast-deploy monopoles for production-sensitive schedules.
New site builds, direct embedment monopoles, microwave backhaul, antenna and radio install, obstruction lighting, maintenance.
Sovereign broadband buildouts on tribal lands. Scoped for NTIA Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) timelines, deliverables, and grant reporting.
Site design, new site builds, foundations and civil, tower erection, sector and backhaul, microwave backhaul, maintenance.
County-scale PTP rings, 4.9 GHz public-safety band, dispatch and repeater aggregation. Redundant topology and carrier-grade SLA equipment.
New site builds, tower erection, microwave backhaul (ring topology), sector and backhaul, grounding and cadwelding, obstruction lighting, maintenance.
BEAD, ReConnect, and state broadband grant scopes. Grant-compliant documentation and milestone schedules.
Site design, new site builds, foundations and civil, tower erection, sector and backhaul, antenna and radio install, maintenance.
Named storms, lightning strikes, partial structural failures, blacked-out obstruction lights, failed radios on revenue-carrying backhaul. When a tower site is down and the clock is running, we roll.
Crews running out of Alabama and Texas typically mobilize within 24 hours in the lower 48. Southeastern US, same-day response common.
One engineering framework across 15 service lines. What your engineer, inspector, or insurance auditor expects to see documented.
ANSI structural standard for antenna-supporting structures. Plumb tolerance, guy pre-load, bolt torque, and ice/wind loading on every tower we build, modify, or inspect.
Current advisory circular for obstruction marking and lighting. L-810 / L-864 / L-865 / L-856 / L-857 / L-866 / L-885 designators, photometric output, dual systems.
Federal rules for structures requiring FAA marking and FCC ASR registration. Covers which towers need to be lit and how outages get reported.
Licensed microwave (Part 101), unlicensed RF (Part 15), and CBRS (Part 96). We file, coordinate, and install to the right framework for your link.
International recommendation for terrestrial line-of-sight microwave availability. Rain-fade, fade-margin, and availability modeled per P.530 on every licensed link.
Grounding and bonding standards. R56 default on WISP and commercial; stricter IEEE 80 and 837 on utility-grade and substation sites.
National Electrical Code for radio equipment, feedline grounding, lead-in conductors, and cabinet wiring. DC runs, Cat6 shielding, and fiber-armor bonding.
Lightning protection. Surge suppressors bonded to the tower ring; lightning-protection plant installed per NFPA 780.
Federal and industry safety standards for communication-tower work. 100% tie-off, authorized rescue, site-specific safety plan on every climb.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Live crews in Alabama and Texas, ready to roll to your site today.
Anywhere else in the lower 48, we mobilize typically within 48 hours. Trucks, tools, and fully outfitted trailers travel with us. Full crews for turnkey builds, or tiger-teams when you need a fast specialist deploy.
Send us the site (address or coordinates), the tower type and height, and the scope (new build, RF install, modification, maintenance, emergency). Attach any stamped drawings, RF designs, or inspection reports you have.
Request a quote here or call us at (763) 280-6050. Most scopes get a line-itemed quote back inside a week. Emergency scopes get a same-day response.
Scope size and licensing.
Same crews, same standards, different scope size. If you don’t know which fits, send the scope and we’ll route it.
Breadth.
Most customers take the turnkey scope. Split scopes are common on larger utility or carrier programs where the owner has a standing civil partner.
Don't see your scope? Send it over. We answer every scoping call.
Send the location, tower type, scope, and timeline. We come back with a quote, a crew, and a schedule you can build a business around.
