well that settles that. we have invasive callery pear in n. maine. it hasnt flowered in the 2 years he’s had the house. i plan to graft it over next year. the previous owner planted it and shes got alzhimers so i guess we wont know how it came up here. its planted in a row with a few lilacs. its about 10ft.and a nice looking tree.
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maybe it was originally a rootstock for something else? maybe why its so bushy. do they normally grow like that or more like a reg. tree?
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I’m with @clarkinks on this identification, as soon as I saw the leaves in the first image I immediately said Callery. The reason it is so bushy is likely because it was cut to the ground but grew back. Maybe it was cut with a brush mower, maybe it was cut with a saw but was allowed to come back. These things are resilient. There’s a field in a park which is managed by a nearby county. They brush mow it infrequently enough that it is filling up with Callery pear trees instead of the field grass. It just doesn’t kill these things. 
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Im wondering if i should cut it down to 1 trunk now then graft to that next spring or graft to all the shoots and see what happens.
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Yes cut it back.to a central trunk. That is what i always do with them. Dont worry about any problems it wont have any from pruning.
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