Yes, Landig Is a Real Shop. The Cooler Only Makes Sense If You Hang Whole Animals.

Yes. Real factory. Real imprint. Still a truck, not a parcel.

Yes. If a friend just texted me is this shop legit, that's the short answer. Landig is the hunting line of Landig + Lava GmbH & Co. KG at Mackstraße 90 in 88348 Bad Saulgau, Germany. I opened gamecooling.com on 27 September 2026. Same house as landig.com. The imprint still lists phone +49 7581 9043-0, email info@landig.com, register HRA 723131 at Amtsgericht Ulm, and VAT ID DE-284327872. The firm dates itself to 1982. You can call the plant. That is more than a lot of hunting-gear pages give you.

Legit is the easy half. Useful is the fussy half. This till sells hanging refrigerators for whole game, plus panel rooms when a door is not enough, plus the benches and bags that sit next to the cooler. It's not a second kitchen fridge with a camouflage sticker. It's not a video-game name that happened to collide with a Swabian workshop. If you wanted a chrome box for leftover stew, you're in the wrong aisle.

On that September pass I did not invent a waitlist I could not see, and I will not invent one now. Some cabinet pages have shown queue banners in other weeks. Stock is unpublished until a confirmation email, not a banner, says the truck is booked. Treat the product photo as a description. The offer starts when you pay and they accept.

Count roe and boar. Liters are a kitchen habit.

You size these boxes in animals, not in milk cartons. Count the roe and the boar you actually hang in a season. That is the whole measuring stick. Liters look precise and then lie, because a warm carcass needs height, rail strength, and air around the hide, not a grocery cube. I will say it again in plainer words: if you cannot name how many animals you hang, you're not picking a cooler. You are browsing furniture.

The cabinet I would price first is the LU 9000 Premium. On the live sheet it is the volume seller: four roe, or two boar in the seventy-five to eighty kilogram band, about 1,740 millimeters of inner height, rails rated to two hundred kilograms, and a quoted draw around 1.2 kilowatt-hours per day. When I checked, the till showed about two thousand eight hundred euros including German VAT, freight extra. Tilt clearance when you stand it up is about 2,050 millimeters without the feet and 2,150 with them. That number matters more than the brochure smile. Cellar stairs don't care about your season.

There is a smaller plug-in box if your year is two roe or one modest boar. It sat near two thousand euros including VAT on the same visit. There is a tall stainless cabinet if you hang red deer without the head; that one climbed toward five thousand euros and needs a doorway you can actually take apart. I am not marching through every sibling on the shelf. Two shapes are enough: the mid-size hanging closet most German hunters should price, and the oversized box clubs keep asking about. Everything else is a conversation with the desk after you know your animals.

The cellar stairs will veto the purchase before the till does

Here is the metaphor I actually use. Ordering a hanging cooler without walking the cellar stairs is like buying a wardrobe and discovering the stairwell is a corkscrew. The cabinet can be the right height on paper and still refuse to stand up on the landing. Measure outer height, the ninety-degree door swing, and the tilt path with a person at each end. Then measure again after you account for a pipe, a meter box, or that one step that is shorter than the others.

Power is ordinary and still easy to get wrong. Every current LU cabinet is specified at 230 volts with a plug-ready machine. The mid-size unit wants a dedicated grounded socket, not a reel across a wet floor, and the cord on the LU 9000 Premium is about 1.8 meters. Connection load sits around three hundred watts for that size. Daily cost is the kilowatt-hours figure, not the peak cooling number. A floor that can take the empty box plus a rail load is not optional. A light circuit in a shed is. Have an electrician add a proper outlet before the truck day, not after the driver is already on the phone.

Who this is actually for

Buy this if you hunt in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, you regularly bring whole animals home, and you already have a legal, clean place to process them. A covered game larder, garage, cellar, or shed. A 230-volt socket that is not shared with a welder. A floor you trust. A path from the truck that does not require a miracle. German hunting-association members can still pay by invoice if they enter a membership number at checkout. PayPal installments, when the till offers them, apply to German bank accounts on totals from about ninety-nine to five thousand euros.

I think the honest buyer already knows the butcher’s bill and is tired of it. Not angry. Tired. You have hung meat on a rail before. You can keep a drip tray clean. You can live with a compressor that clicks on at two in the morning during a warm October. If that paragraph doesn't sound like your year, keep reading the skip list instead of the color chart.

Skip the cart if this is you

Better to bounce now than argue with a hundred-kilogram box on a landing later. The skip list is not taste. It is hygiene law, ceiling height, and a season that does not justify the freight.

• You take one roe a year and already pay a butcher to hang and cut. The cabinet then becomes a vanity appliance.
• You have no covered room. These machines want a larder, garage, cellar, or shed shielded from wind and weather, not an open farmyard.
• Your ceiling cannot clear the outer height plus the tilt path. A mid-size box that needs more than two meters to stand up will not negotiate with a pipe.
• You always drop game at a registered processor and never cut at home. Freight and footprint are then a hobby purchase.
• You cannot assemble a panel room or meet local food-hygiene rules, but you were eyeing a walk-in anyway.
• You wanted a kitchen fridge for a few boneless joints. That is a different tool. A warm boar does not belong there.

Treat a Landig box as a cold closet sized in animals, not liters of milk. If you cannot name the roe or boar you hang in a season, you are not ready to price the LU 9000 Premium.

— Alex Rivera

What the machine is doing while the carcass hangs

The controller on the mid-size cabinets is specified from minus five to plus fifteen degrees Celsius. Stainless siblings start at zero. That minus-five setting is for controlled hanging, not a deep freeze. Air circulates on purpose so the surface does not dry into a crust while the core is still warm. Extra cooling on current generations is there to pull a heavy boar down quickly. Empty large cabinets are said to reach setpoint in about twenty minutes. I have not timed that in a shed, and I will not pretend I have.

Premium liners are smooth, with a drip tray and a floor drain. Hang by the hind legs. Clean. The energy figures on the stainless pages are measured at plus seven inside and plus twenty around the machine. A hot metal shed will draw more. Which is why siting is not a footnote. A cabinet in a closed cellar behaves. A cabinet in a sun-baked lean-to works the compressor like a rented mule.

When a door is not enough: panel rooms

If several people will walk in with a rail load, or you hang more than a mid-size cabinet’s four-roe rating, Landig sells walk-in cells on a 300-millimeter grid. Heights on the advice page step from about 1,960 millimeters up to 2,410, chosen by species: lower rooms for roe, a mid height as the usual seller, taller doors for red deer. Walls are about eighty millimeters. Aggregates are still 230 volts. Daily draw on a large cell is quoted around 1.5 to 2.5 kilowatt-hours. Prices on that listing started near five thousand eight hundred euros including VAT and climbed past nine thousand on the biggest grids. German freight on cells was about one hundred thirty-five euros with a fifteen- to twenty-day window. A factory winter switch for a roofed outdoor site sat around four hundred ninety euros including VAT.

A walk-in is a room you assemble or pay them to install. It is not a taller fridge. Custom split plants and rail jobs are quoted around twenty days and cannot be express-shipped. If you already have an insulated chamber, a plug-in aggregate can be cheaper than buying a whole cell. Confirm that on the live page. I will not invent a package price that was unpublished on 27 September 2026.

How the till works, and the fees in words

Ordering is a standard German shop flow, and that is meant as praise. Pick the cabinet, choose housing color or where the aggregate sits, enter an address, pay, wait for the confirmation email. Phone support is 07581 90430. Large cabinets travel as advised truck freight with a liftgate. Accessories go as parcels; German parcel freight is often free above about forty-nine euros. Cash on delivery exists only in Germany, only up to six hundred euros on parcel jobs, and it adds fees. Export prices are net of German VAT. Payment abroad is prepayment, PayPal, card, or Sofort.

• Germany, mid-size hanging cabinets: about eighty-nine euros including VAT, seven to ten days when the unit is in stock.
• Germany, the taller stainless cabinets: about one hundred nineteen to one hundred thirty-five euros, same window.
• Germany express: about two to three days after you call, for a surcharge. Lead times stay non-binding until a second email confirms.
• Austria: about one hundred thirty-five to one hundred fifty euros on cabinets; about two hundred on walk-in cells; fifteen to twenty days for the rooms.
• Switzerland: about two hundred euros on cabinets plus customs and brokerage; about four hundred fifty on cells; parcel vacuum gear closer to fifteen euros with handling.
• Keep the invoice PDF. Photograph the cabinet on the pavement. Warranty talk starts with those two files.

The catch: a Swiss pallet is not a German pallet with a sticker. You add brokerage. You add the call to your importer. Austria is simpler and still not free. I get impatient with shops that hide the truck line three menus down. Landig at least prints a table. Read it before you feel clever about a sale price.

Warranty, the 14-day window, and what you pay to send a box back

Manufacturer cover is two years from delivery on advertised goods, Germany and other EU countries. Landig says it has more than two hundred German service points and can repair large machines on site or swap them. Wear, weather, overvoltage, and do-it-yourself repairs are out. Vacuum sealers can add a paid five-year cover at checkout only; that rider is a different product family and I am not pricing it here. Consumers have fourteen days from receiving the last item to cancel by letter, fax, email, or the site button, to Mackstraße 90. You organize and pay the return. The shop estimates about fifty euros for goods that cannot go as a normal parcel. A real forwarder collecting a hundred-kilogram LU 9000 Premium may cost more, so get a quote. Made-to-measure goods can lose withdrawal. Transit damage is a defect claim, not a change-of-mind return.

What this cooler will not fix

A game refrigerator is not a blast chiller for a truckload of warm boar. It is not a walk-in unless you buy a cell. It is not a substitute for field dressing done on time. I am not giving you a medical rule or a guaranteed aging result. I am saying the machine holds a setpoint. You still have to get the animal into it while that still matters. Shop lead times are non-binding until the second email. If a nearby dealer has a used hanging box and you can see the compressor run, that can beat a new queue. Unpublished stock is unpublished. Do not let a banner talk you into a deposit you do not understand.

Outdoor siting is the other quiet failure. Catalogue copy allows a game chamber, garage, cellar, or shed if it is shielded from wind and weather. Walk-in cells may sit outdoors only under a roof, and then they want that winter switch. Very low outside temperatures can confuse a cooler that is trying to hold meat above freezing. A hot shed works the compressor too hard. If you need something that travels, look at the shop’s mobile boxes rather than parking the LU 9000 Premium in the rain. Do not run an extension reel across a wet concrete floor because the only socket is on the wrong wall. That is how you turn a hanging season into an electrician’s invoice.

FAQ: checkout questions hunters actually ask

Do I need a three-phase supply?

No. The current technical sheet puts every LU cabinet on 230 volts with a plug-ready machine. Walk-in aggregates are 230 volts too. Daily use is the kilowatt-hours-per-day number, not the peak cooling watts. Plan a dedicated grounded outlet before the truck arrives. If the outbuilding only has a light circuit, stop and call an electrician. The cabinet will not invent a socket for you.

Can I stand the cooler outside all year?

Not as an unprotected patio appliance. Shield it. Roof it if you are looking at a cell. Budget about four hundred ninety euros including VAT if the factory winter switch is the right extra for a roofed outdoor site. I am not sure a cheap DIY heater taped to a compressor is a substitute, and I would not try that experiment on a new warranty. If the only dry space you have is a kitchen, you don't have a site.

How long to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland?

On the live shipping table, LU cabinets are seven to ten days by advised truck when the unit is in stock, counted after confirmation or after a prepayment leaves your bank. Germany can compress that to about two to three days as paid express if you call 07581 9043-0. Austria uses the same cabinet window at about one hundred thirty-five to one hundred fifty euros depending on size. Switzerland is also seven to ten days for cabinets at about two hundred euros plus customs. Walk-in cells are fifteen to twenty days: about one hundred thirty-five euros in Germany, two hundred in Austria, four hundred fifty in Switzerland. Small parcels are three to four days in Germany and three to five into Austria and Switzerland.

Can I pay by hunting-association invoice?

German hunting-association members can request invoice payment if they enter a valid membership number at checkout. That is a till option, not a handshake at the loading dock. Export buyers should expect prepayment, PayPal, card, or Sofort. PayPal installments, when shown, are for German bank accounts inside that ninety-nine to five thousand euro band. If the membership field rejects the number, call the desk rather than inventing a workaround in the comment box.

What happens if I cancel after the truck has been?

If you are a consumer, gamecooling.com gives you fourteen days from taking the last item to send a clear cancellation to Landig + Lava GmbH & Co. KG. Refunds of the price and standard outbound freight follow within fourteen days of that notice, and the shop may wait until the goods are back. You organize and pay the return. For truck freight the cancellation page estimates those costs at up to about fifty euros per item that cannot go as a postal parcel. A forwarder collecting a mid-size hanging cooler may charge more. Custom-built goods can be excluded. Photograph arrival damage before you sign past the obvious dents.

Is a walk-in cheaper than the tallest cabinet once freight is in?

Usually no. A tall plug-in cabinet still buys you a door, a 230-volt machine, and a footprint you can place if the stairs allow it. A cell buys you a room, eighty-millimeter panels, and a fifteen- to twenty-day build window. Cells start near five thousand eight hundred euros and the Swiss freight alone can be about four hundred fifty euros. Choose the cell when people will walk in with a rail load. Choose the LU 9000 Premium when four roe or two boar is the actual year and you can live with a door, not a room. If you already have insulated walls, ask the desk about a plug-in aggregate before you buy a whole box.