This invention relates to a method of de-wiring paper bales and/or pulp bales, each one of which being tied up by metal wires, and the bale being intended to pass a de-wiring apparatus by transport on a conveyor. According to the invention the method is characterized by the combination of the following steps: the bale is forced to stop when it has come up to the de-wiring apparatus, whereafter two units (2, 3) of the same, going towards each other, are applied against two opposite side surfaces of the bale, so that the bale is fixed between the units by clamping; the wires surrounding the bale are cut off at the one of the mentioned side surfaces by means of a cutting tool (5), being a part of the one unit (2); the wires are caught hold of on the opposite side of the bale and is thereafter wound up by a combined gripping and winding up tool (11), being a part of the second unit, which tool is forced to rotate so that the wires are wound up on the same and form bobbins; the wires, wound up to bobbins, are discharged from the gripping and winding up tool (11) by a discharging means (20). The invention also relates to a de-wiring apparatus.
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