Abstract: A bar puller for a numerically controlled turret lathe having a mounting member for mounting the bar puller to one of the stations of a rotary turret on the lathe, the bar puller having a pair of gripping jaws that are pivotally mounted between clevis plates on pivot pins and biased by a plurality of compression springs, the jaw blocks carrying adjustable gripping members that engage the end of a bar stock and draw the bar stock in the chuck on displacement of the turret carriage with the gripping jaws being released by further displacement of the turret carriage after a chuck has been secured on the stock.