Dropped my drill off a ladder - still works! What's your 'torture test' story?

Hey Tool Discount Club folks, gotta share this one. Last week I was up on a 12-foot ladder doing some overhead work on a skid steer, using my trusty DeWalt 20V hammer drill to drill some mounting holes. Slipped on a greasy spot, drill went flying, bounced off two steel beams, and landed in a puddle of hydraulic fluid. Thought for sure it was toast. Wiped it off, pulled the trigger... still runs like a champ! No chuck wobble, hammer function works fine. These things are built like tanks. Anyone else have a tool that survived what should've killed it?

Wendy, that's wild! Reminds me of my old Makita cordless that took a swim in a koi pond I was working around. Fished it out, let it dry for a day, and it fired right up. But I've had the opposite too – dropped a brand-name drill from waist height onto grass and the chuck seized. Total junk. Makes you wonder about QC these days. For landscaping, I beat up tools constantly – mud, rocks, you name it. My current Milwaukee Fuel has been through hell and back. What model DeWalt was it?

Dave, it's the DCD996P2 – the brushless hammer drill. Thing's a beast. I've put it through concrete, steel, you name it. The battery didn't even pop out on impact! But yeah, QC is hit or miss. We had a guy on site drop a similar model off a scaffold and it shattered. Might've been a Friday afternoon build lol. For heavy machinery work, I won't touch anything that isn't industrial grade. Seen too many 'prosumer' tools die on first jobs.