Harvestman. I don't understand this concept and how it works but coming from you I know that it is rock solid. Will you email me those guideline? Thanks in advance for your help. Bill

As the article states, the easiest way for a beginner to prune varieties into the earliest bearing shape is to remove all branches more than a third the diameter of the trunk at the point of attachment to the trunk and leave everything else. Do not worry about shape or height until the tree comes into fairly heavy bearing. At this point you can easily shape the tree any way you want for high quality fruit and the height you desire because once the tree is bearing well it is much easier to control.

This method works quite well for at least 90% of the varieties I work with. If you know the variety is not vigorous and highly precocious you can leave branches with somewhat larger relative diameter- say up to a half of the diameter of the trunk.