consuming but would nevertheless be a routine undertaking of engineering for those of ordinary skill in the art having the benefit of this disclosure a material handling system includes a base portion connectable to a machine tool frame a pivot post rotatably connectable to said base portion an arm connectable to said pivot post so as to extend horizontally from said base portion a shuttle movably mounted to said arm said shuttle movable along at least a portion of the length of said arm a lifter connectable to said shuttle and a load handler flexibly connectable to said lifter referring to fig1 13 an embodiment of a material handling system 100 is shown mounted to a milling machine m having a frame f a head h and a table t base portion 110 is removably connected to machine frame f at the rear of the machine in this embodiment frame f includes an oil reservoir mounting flange a which provides a convenient mounting point in the embodiment base portion 110 includes stanchion 112 bottom plate 114 mounting stud 116 and base compression nut 118 bottom plate 114 includes hole 220 for receiving mounting stud 116 stanchion 112 includes stanchion tube.