chickenlittle
5 year old buck +
The Cummins photos are after they completed pruning. They aren't trying to be perfect or spend too much time pruning them. They know how the old trees have been fruiting, if it is biannual, how it responds to pruning. To some extent, they prune to make the trees look nice. Also, they know where a tree is weak and needs pruned more to minimize fruit load that might cause a tree to break. Being a pick your own orchard, they want these old trees healthy, looking nice, and productive enough. They have newer plantings there too in high density rows on dwarfing stock that put out much more fruit. Those would get pruned very differently and uniformly down to the row of a variety.