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You don't see the worms after they go through the cider press.:/:

Thanks all. I'm thinking that a little top reduction, and eliminating crossing, weak or damaged structure lower in the tree will be my goal for this year, as well as getting the dead wood out. As a side note, it has been said that when the trees bear a lot of fruit, it means a long hard winter...

I don't suppose I'd like to do commercial orchard pruning, like a couple thousand trees, but I have always wanted to have about two months worth of it in the winter, good, easy, profitable winter work for a landscraper.;)

I was thinking the 1/3 rule was the way to go. I'm also expecting a lesson from Stumper.:D I've always pruned crab apples for blossoming effect. I guess that's the same as pruning for fruiting effect.The trees aren't in terrible shape, like a tree that has been let go, they doen't have 45...

I have 6 or 8 apples to prune in the next couple of weeks. They are pasture type trees that have probably not been touched in a half century, if ever. I want to dead wood them, and get them a bit lower. We are going to make cider again next fall, and these trees put out a lot of apples last...