Abstract: A method and a plant for pulling-off of the hide or skin of animal carcasses, wherein the plant forms part of a slaughtering line in a slaughter-house. The carcasses are transported continuously on a transport path (23, 24) suspended from all four legs in an essentially horizontal position and with the longitudinal direction of the carcass in the movement direction of the transport path. In a lead-in area (1) of the path the rearward legs, as viewed in the transport direction, are retained in relation to the movement of the forward legs, and the carcass (9) thereafter is fed under tension with an essentially constant distance between the suspension points of the forward and rearward legs. After preflaying the hide/skin is pulled off by a stripper means, preferably a rotatable drum (91), which, in a stationary operative position below the back of the carcass (16), executes the stripping operation while the carcass (16) passes the stripper means (91).