Gary,

I happen to have a dwarf pear tree in my front yard. In addition to yielding
dwarf-like fruit, at not quite ten years of age were I to cut the tree down
tomorrow I might get a beefy walking stick out of the main trunk. Certainly a
bevy of chisel handles, maybe even a baguette pin. But there are no would-be saw
handles or burls worth turning in this thing. That it’s a “dwarf” doesn’t change
the fact that it’s a pear. It’s just small stuff.

Just my experience so far. Ask me again in another fifteen years.

JL------------------------------------------------------------------------