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 . <EOS>