High temperature creep and mechanosorptive behaviour for any wood species is scarce and difficult to obtain.This is mainly due to equipment design challenges and experimental constraints. This paper outlines the designand scope of a project to collect and model the creep and mechanosorption of tangential grain radiata pine athigh temperatures. The progress and challenges encountered, particularly the control of humidity, the ability tomeasure it at temperatures up to 150°C, the design of a purpose built relative humidity sensor and the issue ofhow to obtain a range of equilibrium moisture contents in order to simulate conditions encountered during wooddrying, are described.