Hydraulic reservoir for silage compression machines

For use in a silage compression machine of the type having a transversely extending main beam, and a primary shaft positioned beneath the main beam for rotating a plurality of teeth to force material through a passageway and into a tunnel including an arcuate wall extending upwardly and rearwardly from the main beam, a hydraulic reservoir comprising:

• a bottom wall supported on the main beam;
• a front wall extending substantially vertically upwardly from the front edge of the bottom wall;
• a top wall extending substantially horizontally rearwardly from the upper edge of the front wall;
• a rear wall extending upwardly and rearwardly from the rear edge of the bottom wall to the rear edge of the top wall and adjacent to the arcuate wall of the tunnel;
• a pair of end walls secured to the edges of the bottom front, top and rear walls to define an enclosed hydraulic fluid reservoir;
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• spacer means for maintaining the rear wall of the reservoir in a substantially spaced apart relationship with respect to the arcuate wall of the tunnel.