Sausage casing storage with filling level monitoring

Method for determining a filling level of shined casing sticks in a shined casing stick storage in sausage production, where, for separating said shined casing sticks,

• in said shined casing sticks storage, pushing a row R1 with a first number of consecutively disposed shined casing sticks by a pusher during a first stroke cycle along a sloped plane over a separation edge;
• and
• once the last shined casing stick of said row R1 has been pushed over said separation edge, moving said pusher back along said sloped plane and taking a row R2 with a second number of consecutively disposed shined casing sticks by said pusher and pushing in a further stroke cycle in a direction towards said separation edge, wherein
• a control device determines a filling level of shined casing sticks in said shined casing stick storage from a number of shined casing sticks pushed over said separation edge, wherein the filling level of shirred casing sticks in said shirred casing stick storage is determined in dependence of the number of shirred casing sticks of a row R1 which are pushed over said separation edge in a stroke cycle before said pusher again moves back.