Then I dig straight down and up all around the plant still not prying or disturbing the rootball :
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Once I have gone around it 100% I pry it up with a solid a ball :
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Potted up :
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Free Trachy . It's never experienced this much sun . If it could talk it probably would say , " What is this bright stuff ? " . I've already put it back in the shade so as not to burn it since it's only been in deep shade until today :
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The reason I documented digging up the palm is because sometimes I see horrible jobs of digging up plants , usually on other websites , where the rootball is all disturbed with no soil on the roots . Some people probably pry too early and before going all the way around the plant first .
Maybe a couple of people learn a little bit from this documentation and can dig plants a little better by trying this technique .

Here's another one I potted up , and I found about 15 more :
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I used to think these were Sabal minors but I now think they are all Trachys . They are hard to see except for that big one , but I counted about 15 under this Cypress :
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For some who haven't seen this picture before , those naturalized Trachys are probably from the male on the left ( Taylor Form ) and the female to the right of it .
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Thanks ,
Will

Edit : I got the numbers for Wilmington , and while bad , it was no where near as bad as my location or New Bern .

................. High Low
12/31/17........ 39 29
1/1/2018....... 30 19
1/2 ....... 34 18
1/3....... 36 17
1/4....... 35 24
1/5....... 35 17
1/6 ...... 31 13
1/7....... 32 12
1/8........... Back into the 50'sF

I had highs some of those days in the 20'sF . Wilmington stayed an 8A that winter , but with that stretch of temperatures it would be considered a cold 8A for there .

Winston-Salem ( Greensboro airport ; The Weatherunderground stopped showing my city history I guess because it's so close to Greensboro . I had only 8 days below 32F not 9 days . Tell that to my Palmettos named Shaq and Curly lol ) :

High Low
12/31/17 ........ 31 21
1/1/18........ 26 13
1/2....... 30 9
1/3 ....... 30 14
1/4 ....... 28 16
1/5 ....... 29 10
1/6 ....... 26 8
1/7 ....... 28 17
1/8 ........ 43 19