This is where I will include most of the building information as it happens
The aluminum arrived on a wooden skid on a flat-bed truck.
I had asked around locally and was able to hire a huge forklift for an hour and a half from Boulter ($100). Gave the guy a call and he trucked the forklift the three miles unloaded the forklift and then the aluminum from the flatbed, while still in the roadway, and then carefully reversed down the driveway (tight squeeze between the trees), placed it next to the workshop.
Loaded up the forklift, and that was that.
Absolutely professional and painless. Thanks you guys! No damage to the plate. Signed the invoices. Trucker on his way. Took a stiff shot of Cockburn's Port and sat and looked at it all. Man, I must be insane. (much plotting had gone into this unloading business - contemplated attaching a cable to the skid and a tree and jerking the load off and had it been steel I would have done so, but that shiny aluminum deserved a little more careful treatment - went so easily after all).