You want to also want to make cuts right against.

10 o’clock pruning angle. Narrow, V-shape crotches are an open invitation to disastrous splitting later on, particularly when your tree is ripening with a large bumper crop.

For your branches: choose wide 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock angles. Pruning to a bud. Jun 20, Pruning a pear tree begins in late winter before the buds begin to swell. Earlier pruning may encourage excessive vegetative growth and suckering in spring and summer.

It also increases the chances of winter injury to the pruning sites.

Grape Vines.

Limit spring and summer pruning to light thinning and try to avoid trimming pear trees after midsummer. Basic idea for Pruning: Most fruit trees should be pruned in frost-free periods mid to late winter. (apricots best after bud break) Remove most vertical branches and shorten side branches.

Fruiting wood is best on horizontal to 45 degree limbs.