Abstract: In order to be able to fully automatically deposit a sausage strand (1) in turns on a smoking rod (2), the strand of sausages (5) reeled off a portioning device (4) with the aid of a rotating carrier finger (12) is first "wound up" on a feeder arm (14). This is done with the aid of a movable feeder device (18) of feeder arm (14), particularly and endless chain, and which in a preferred manner is provided with carrier teeth (22). During the retraction of the feeder arm (14) in the direction of arrow (25), the feeder device (18) is driven in the opposite direction. Thereby one turn after the other is transferred to the smoking rod (2) situated under the feeder arm (14). The smoking rod is situated on a rotating support (26), in which several smoking rods evenly arranged along the circumference can be exchanged with the aid of a delivery device (46), a transfer device (41) and a receiver ( 38). The removal of the loaded smoking rods is preferably done by hand.