Abstract: The invention is an apparatus for automatic spooling of cable or other materials of extended lengths onto a drum. Because of difficulties in rapidly and automatically attaching the end of a cable to a drum, existing methods typically are forced to introduce manual labor in the automated process. The invention solves this problem in this manner: an apparatus for cable-laying is placed next to a cable guide in each other's center lines, thereby making it possible to feed the tail end of a cable, with the aid of a device for guiding and for positioning, to the cable guide, which then can guide the cable to a cable clamp placed in the center of a pintle. The main area of use is in the spooling of cables.