Method for removing binding bands from a coil which is produced by coiling of a strip, wherein the coil has two end faces and a lateral surface, and also a coil eye having an eye axis, and the binding bands have a binding band width (b), a) wherein initially, while a first subregion of the lateral surface of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on a first rest, those binding bands which, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, surround the coil completely outside the first subregion are removed, and b) wherein then, while a second subregion of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on the first rest or a second rest, the first and the second subregion, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, being spaced apart from one another at least by the binding band width (b), those binding bands which were not removed in step a) are removed, - wherein the coil is conveyed, by means of an advancing bar, in several stages in a substantially horizontal conveying direction (x) from a first stationary saddle region to a second stationary saddle region, from the second stationary saddle region to a third stationary saddle region etc. up to a last stationary saddle region, such that the coil alternately rests on one of the saddle regions and the advancing bar, - in that either a predetermined one of the saddle regions corresponds to the first rest, the advancing bar corresponds to the second rest, step a) is carried out while the coil is resting on the predetermined saddle region, and step b) is carried out while the coil is being conveyed from the predetermined saddle region to the subsequent saddle region by means of the advancing bar, - or, conversely, the advancing bar corresponds to the first rest, a predetermined one of the saddle regions corresponds to the second rest, step a) is carried out while the coil is being conveyed from the preceding saddle region to the predetermined saddle region by means of the advancing bar, and step b) is carried out while the coil is resting on the predetermined saddle region. a) wherein initially, while a first subregion of the lateral surface of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on a first rest, those binding bands which, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, surround the coil completely outside the first subregion are removed, and b) wherein then, while a second subregion of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on the first rest or a second rest, the first and the second subregion, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, being spaced apart from one another at least by the binding band width (b), those binding bands which were not removed in step a) are removed, - wherein the coil is conveyed, by means of an advancing bar, in several stages in a substantially horizontal conveying direction (x) from a first stationary saddle region to a second stationary saddle region, from the second stationary saddle region to a third stationary saddle region etc. up to a last stationary saddle region, such that the coil alternately rests on one of the saddle regions and the advancing bar, - in that either a predetermined one of the saddle regions corresponds to the first rest, the advancing bar corresponds to the second rest, step a) is carried out while the coil is resting on the predetermined saddle region, and step b) is carried out while the coil is being conveyed from the predetermined saddle region to the subsequent saddle region by means of the advancing bar, - or, conversely, the advancing bar corresponds to the first rest, a predetermined one of the saddle regions corresponds to the second rest, step a) is carried out while the coil is being conveyed from the preceding saddle region to the predetermined saddle region by means of the advancing bar, and step b) is carried out while the coil is resting on the predetermined saddle region.