Abstract: A method and an apparatus for severing wire windings which are uncooled and not tolerance-adhering from the beginning and end of a rolling line conveyed over a Stelmor plant or comparable wire winding conveying systems, wherein initially a number of the front windings of the rolled strand are counted and in accordance with a predetermined number of windings these windings are severed as front crop from the finished wire. Subsequently, the severed windings are accelerated on a first conveyor and the following finished wire is decelerated, so that the cut location is widened during transport.