It seems to be a normal thing here. Last year was a heavy bearing year on my
Warren and after harvest they never went back up to horizontal. Every year
is a bumper crop year on my Orient, much to my dismay, and limb breakage is
common. My neighbor's hard pears also bear heavily. Most branches never
get horizontal, much less anywhere near vertical in a mature heavily bearing
tree. There was a discussion about apples that they bear better when the
limbs are horizontal or something like that.
Doc Lisenby
Zone 7/8 So. Car.