Dropped my impact driver from the roof - still works! What's your 'tool abuse' survival story?

Hey all, had a wild one yesterday. Was up on a second-story roof demo job, my Milwaukee M18 Fuel impact driver slipped out of my tool belt and took a 20-foot dive onto concrete. Not even a scratch on the housing, fired right up and finished the day. Got me thinking - what's the craziest abuse your tools have survived? I've had cheaper stuff shatter from half that height. Build quality matters!

LOL Dave, reminds me of my DeWalt drywall gun last year. Was doing a ceiling in an old warehouse, knocked it off the scaffold THREE times. Thing's got more dents than my first car but still runs smooth. My helper dropped my mud mixer in a bucket once though... that was a funeral. Some tools are tanks, others are made of glass!

Precision guy here - I cringe at drops, but my Mitutoyo calipers survived a fall into coolant sump once. Dried em out, still measure within spec. For drivers though, I've seen Festool survive jobsite abuse that would kill store-brand tools. You get what you pay for - Milwaukee's solid for pro use.

Welding perspective: dropped my Miller welder off a truck bed once. Case cracked but internals fine. Tools either have good shock mounting or they don't. Milwaukee's got good dampening in their impacts. But try that with a Harbor Freight special and you'll be shopping for parts. OP - check if the anvil's still true, sometimes impact gets misaligned internally even if it runs.