How long dose it take to heal from ACL reconstruction?

I had ACL reconstruction on my right knee one year ago. the first three months of rehab went realy well! My PT said i was doing better than most and quite a bit ahead of schedual. Well for unfortunate reasons i had to leave the state and move. I got a job oportunity to make great money doing high end carpentry with an old friend. So at three months out of surgery i started doing carpentry. I felt strong so i thought it would be ok. Well at first it was a little tuff being on laders and stuff. Just when I started getting used to it i started getting bad knee pain. Tendonitis maybe. Aftertwo months i stopped. By then it was pretty bad. It took two months for the pain to mostly go away... i say mostly cause i started carpentry again and if i work a full day i still get alot of pain. So i would realy like to hear some other peoples experiences with ACL reconstruction. Just to see if I am way off or not the only person to take longer than a year to heal.