Took the card stock route

[doctorwayne]

Tom,

Nice job on the loads. Just proves that there is a prototype for almost everything.

Bruce

That's for sure, and I can't argue with that photo. Perhaps they're using a smaller magnet than the ones with which I'm familiar. Most of ours were rated for 25 or 30 tons, and piling even 4" thick short slabs was a real chore - often one end of the magnetised slab would attract the end of the slab upon which you were trying to place it, spinning it atop the pile, and usually moving the ones below, too. Whatever the method of unloading, the mill shipping the steel would load it to the customer's specifications to accommodate their unloading equipment.
We shipped hot slabs (4'' to 18" thick, and stacked accordingly) using paired "C" hooks on a 60 ton crane, but that was for in-plant shipments. Other mills used similar cranes, although most nowadays are the "Mansaver"-type adjustable bales. There's some info HERE on lifting devices for steel, including one that looks like it would be suitable for your "sitting right on the deck" load. I worked at the start of the process to make an ingot into a slab - making light plate happened farther down the line, although I did base the load shown on ones that I saw coming out of the plate mill.

Wayne