Unloading
Six men or two forklifts
The container arrived almost on time, might be a week later but that was acceptable by me for an overseas delivery.
Bruce suggested to use one large forklift with long forks for unloading or two small forklifts. I called a rental office. They wanted something around $1500 per day and I had to book in advance, which I couldn't because I didn't know the exact day of the container arrival due to the Customs and trucking company schedule in Edmonton.
The time that I spent segregating the individual parts from the nested AutoCAD drawings into separate files was not wasted. Now I could use these files to measure the area of each piece. Simple arithmetics provided me with a weight of each part. The heaviest parts were bottom plates: two pieces of 250 kg and two pieces of 210 kg. The rest were not that heavy.
Taking that a man could lift about 40 kg, I needed at least six men to unload the container.
I got a box of good Czech beer, roasted some pork and beef and called my friends.
I only had two nights to unload the container to avoid extra charges. We did it in four hours, well, five including swearing. I was glad that my neighbors did not speak Russian.