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Of course it does, Josh. After all, thresher-separators are not only related to, but actually came not long after the first combines. To qualify this, all stages of harvesting, threshing and winnowing [cleaning] grains were not only done separately, but often up to weeks to months apart. Most don't realize that it was the combined harvester-thresher [aka "combine"] which came to be, as of 1836, even being pre-dated by other non-patentable, non-working prototypes and experimentals. The success of the thresher-separator [aka thresher OR separator], was contingent on the relative "failure" of the harvester-thresher in the Middle West. Yes, it is true the first combine actually WORKED fair and square. The problem was total lack of technology to store the combine's fresh, high-moisture grain. As a result, the combine was exiled to the west to develop and grow west of the Rockies. Meanwhile, back on the farm, some enterprising farmers and manufacturers began to pick up on at least part of the combine's conventions--combining just the threshing, separating and winnowing; without the whole harvesting part. VOILA! Now the grain can be mechanically reaped, stored to dry and STILL be mechanically processed! The bad news was when the harvester-thresher finally did return to the Middle West and even the Great Plains, it was met with great opposition by those adherent to the "old ways" when all along, the combined harvester-thresher had once been there first! True, most individual threshers may be older than most of the combines still with us today, but since thresher-separators were still manufactured into the 1950's by diversified machinery companies, it's easy to see that there are even SPC's such as the M-H 21's, 27's and even 90's which may be older yet, than some of the "modern" thresher-separators.
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